It's a reminder that life is precious.

Welcome the stranger.

Everything you see is art and people and community.

Where things we think are impossible become possible.

At the time I understood words to be about shock and power and trying to use taboo to my advantage. I wasn't authentic to how I communicated, who I actually am as an artist or a person. And I grew into my authentic creative voice.

This poem is my newer attempt at finding language for anger and also allowing myself to explore what I once thought of as taboo, or what I once perhaps used as a weapon, and now I'm using with more thoughtfulness.

It took me a long time to feel ready to give myself permission again to write angry poems. . . . I have a lot more reasons to be angry than I used to. When I was a kid I had to drum up that anger, and unfortunately these days, I don't have to drum it up quickly; it's there.

What you think of as being edgy or taboo can change pretty dramatically and quickly, but also, what feels true is often something that outlasts where it is in the moment, or it may be true again at another time.

Being human means that we are the only species that can make technology, right? So it is, probably, our destiny.

The language of life. The person who knows how to write and actually read this language will have the ability to change lives forever.

My Maker moral code would help me navigate this idea of questions of yes or no, what was right and wrong, for me.

It's a collaboration between me, the fire, ash and the clay. So... it's many things that are very surprising.

As long as you have some passion, it's great. It doesn't matter if you are going to do it for the future or not.

When I am making some kind of mistake, I don't just ignore or feel bad, depressed - just step back and see that the result might be very interesting and might come back again and again.

Alternative facts didn't just suddenly appear. . . . I live in a world where there's been lies told all of my life.

We are firm believers in that you can’t make equality without breaking a few taboos

Whatever we do, we try to at least push the world into a little bit more equal place

It’s not a matter of who we are; it’s a matter of who we can be.

I am not the result of an all-white father or an all-black mother, which is the common idea. I am the result of a great American horror story and a great American love story.

Being blonde and black is a sort of metaphor for my story.

You need the relationships between people in space to actually create choreography.

Dance is a community thing; you want to dance with people and for people.

For me climbing is a dance in stone.

What is a "higgs"? A "Higgs" is a name, is a guy who proposed the idea 49 years ago. And a "boson"? That is a bit more tricky...

Back to the future, be born before you were born... crazy thing!