“All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hea...” — Margo Jefferson Quote

“All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.”

“I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the men. Black women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the whites.”

“Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.”

“Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.”

“Certainly no university president, at least to my knowledge, has ever stood up and said 'this land is unceded, meaning it's not ours, so we're going to give some of it back.'”

“Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.”