I was WORKING with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the SECRET to the future. And I learned differently just by being in DETROIT and being married to JIMMY Boggs.

There is NOTHING in the DARK that isn't there when the LIGHTS are on.

I have to put down roots where I decide to STAY. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate INDIAN in Canada. If I can't FEEL that I can MAKE social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.

In LIFE, there are no PERFECT AFFECTIONS.

Big Data is neither color-blind nor gender-blind. We can SEE how it is used in MARKETING to segment PEOPLE.

It doesn't say ANYWHERE in the Constitution this idea of the SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE.

In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor SCHOOL For Arts & Humanities.

I know black KIDS who don't EVEN know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are UNCLE Toms or self-hating or fleeing or TRYING to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very NATURAL to them as kids.

I used to BREAK DANCE. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made FUN of me: 'Enough with the DANCING.'

I've ALWAYS been obsessed with style and glamor and if I WANT anyone to GET ANYTHING out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.