In order to free yourself, you must first know that you are enslaved. That takes critical thinking, questioning; it's no wonder reading a book as a black person could get you lynched during this period.

Your captors will have you believe that you don't have any power at all.

You're rebellious and smart, swift and enduring, and you know a better world is possible. In fact it's so clear that you can actually see it, but many of the folks around you can't seem to fathom it.

Mass slaughters, millions of African sons and daughters thrown overboard, thumb screws, forced migrations, beat down and bludgeoned for this country's foundations. All in the name of salvation.

White men have always been depicted as the saviours while everyone else is either the villain or the helpless people who need saving.

In naming Harriet Tubman, a black woman, as a superhero, that is in itself a revolutionary gesture; because it's a paradigm shift away from the ubiquitous, white saviour narrative that dominates many aspects of our history and culture.

The revolution is not 'out there'. The revolution doesn't exist. It's you. It's you and what you've got. It's you and your talents.

If the revolution is you, what happens is you attract an audience - YOUR AUDIENCE, not just an audience, your audience, and they are true, and they will follow you.

We often work for clients that make us got through all of these revisions to make it as wide-a-spectrum as possible, as socially acceptable as possible. Basically making work that offends the fewest amount of people. It doesn't work. It's impossible.

Another key to "The revolution is me" - you are not for everyone.

We love heroes. Do you know why we love heroes? We recognise them. They are us. They are what we're capable of.

It should be a tattoo. "The revolution is me." So we can constantly look at it. That's a mission statement right there.

It's a fucking revolution. It's going to be hard. It's going to involve sacrifice.

The one things that makes us strong, the one thing that makes us unique, and we give up that power to somebody else.

Here lies Thomas. He would've done great work, but his boss wouldn't let him.

Here lies Thomas. He would've done great work, but he had rent to pay.

Our creativity gets rapped on the knuckles so many times that the one tool that makes us unique and makes us, quite frankly, powerful is the one we start to disown.

As we become adults the pressure to be normal, to conform, to fit into that square body, to fit into that square cubicle mounts.

I was called 'creative'. You know what that means? That means "We don't know what to do with him."

Life is a place for doers, life is a place for experiments.

Whenever you are doing stuff, whenever you are trying something which no one has tried ever before you should be curious and you should analyse it.

If there is a question burning in your mind. If there's a problem that just won't let you go. If there's a system so broken that it makes you want to cry. If there's a friend or a stranger whose pain has become your own. If there is a gift that you have that drove you here today in search of a way to give it; then you have found your 'why', and you hold one spark to the next great awakening.

The very fact that a course called Reimagining Capitalism is being taught at Harvard Business School means that we live in revolutionary times.

It's my turn to raise my hand and roll up my sleeve and say: How can I help?

But just before I gave up, people from every corner of my community, some of whom I didn't even know; they stepped in, and they raised their hands and they rolled up their sleeves and they said: How can I help? And that's the only reason I'm standing here.