A book is not a short-term project. It's essentially your baby, so it takes a lot of work.
Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.
Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.
Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.
Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.
I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.
I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.
People love my voice because they say I say what they were thinking but dare not to say because they had a filter or a job.
Unless life is one giant rap battle, you don't need to freestyle your way to success.
Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.