“My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into...” — Tinashe Quote

“My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.”

“I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?”

“I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.”

“God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.”

“We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.”

“White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.”