“There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center,...” — Opal Tometi Quote

There was a time when my uncle was in an immigration detention center, and members of our community would take turns visiting him each weekend. That instilled in me the value of taking care of each other even if the systems aren't working in your favor.

When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda - not only in word but in deed.

Your kids want to know that you can see them and that you care and we're fortunate enough to be able to do that.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Because a human being is endowed with empathy, he violates the natural order if he does not reach out to those who need care. Responding to this empathy, one is in harmony with the order of things, with dharma; otherwise, one is not.