"We weren’t being taught to be smart. We were being taught how to be maids and how to crochet and how to quilt"

"What I tell my students is that they must persevere, and my mother always told me we are children of god and we deser…"

"We are more segregated now than we were in 1945, with de facto segregation. As you well are aware, Mendez and Brown f…"

"They’re not given the same curriculum [in segregated schools] that they get in a white school. I try and push forward…"

"It’s so important that students know that this kind of bigotry has been here forever, and there is no reason why we c…"

"If you stand up for social justice or something that is right, people will stand up and fight for you, and they will …"

"Music is my first love. Ever since I was a little girl I've dreamt of one day being lucky enough to share my music wi…"

"Lyrics to me are of utmost importance and they mean so much to me — in every song that I write, the lyrics have to co…"

"I've dedicated myself to ensuring that every word that I say, everything I write, every role that I play … I know tha…"

"We just need to normalise our hearts' not having boundaries. I think that there's this idea that we as public figures…"