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1. A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We’ve tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
2. My life is art. Its how I express God.
3. An instructor once told me that when there’s resistence in your body, it’s only because of the resistence in your mind. It’s about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.
4. Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.
5. I’m writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we’re going to take over, because it’s really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.
6. We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends — we’re renegades.
7. Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don’t know. But it’s natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
8. Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they’re black and Latino.
9. I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.
10. I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
11. I was obsessed with the Olympics. It’s so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
12. It’s okay to be a freak.
13. I work with youth offenders in LA, I’ve heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
14. What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
15. I’m part of an important movement that needs to happen.
16. I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don’t feel desperate. It’s not about creating or building a career.
17. It’s from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
18. We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
19. I’m a shy person. I don’t know if it’s in my DNA to share with the world.
20. Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.