“My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.”

“I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.”

“Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could man...”

“We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it. Gerald Sider.”

“A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.”

“No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everything is war. Me say war.That until the're no longer 1st class and...”

“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

“And Charles turned around and called back without thinking, 'You know, you're awfully lucky you boys are white.'He didn't know why he said it. It had broken out of him. He'd wanted to speak with lo...”