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I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life. ”
Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time. ”
I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it. ”
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy. ”
Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter. ”
Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives. ”
The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement. ”
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to. ”
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life. ”
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it. ”