Change

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.

I don't know why people are so loathe to say they have bad habits. It feels like something we should all collectively admit.

I like going to Washington. I feel that I'm making a difference; trying to open the eyes of Americans to say, 'Hey, we're not the only people on the planet.'

I know what it is like to be a teen mom. At 13, my mom woke me up in the middle of the night and drove me to the abortion clinic.

I'm not quite the same kind of Catholic as I was in my youth. I was raised in the church in a very conservative family. I don't have a hatred of organized religion, but I don't know if I have a love of it either.

You know, you might be a redneck if you live in the Ozarks and you're surprised when you see a black person.

I don't look older, I just look worse.

The truth is everything and nothing at all.

Our identities are always going to be pitted against each other.

The hardest part has been realizing that this is the new normal.

Don’t tell me to go back to where I came from until you’ve first admitted that your ancestors were immigrants too.

Immigrants don't just belong in America, immigrants are America.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I practice in Beijing for three months, and every day is perfect. I play nothing wrong. I can't do that in the U.K.

You need to fly away from here.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

People don't want other people to be people.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking.