“I have since heard scientists say that we need all the artists and poets to remind us to feel what we will lose when we are looking at environmental challenges such as extinction and climate change.”

“There are so many other values in my life that are important too, but I feel like without authenticity, none of them are real…. Without being authentic, I’m in big trouble.”

”Part of my self-growth was not to find my voice – I always, already had my voice – but to have the courage to use it in the way that I wanted to use it.”

"In a world where the dominant cultural default is to react – to do – that singular question and sound has so much power to slow things down, bring clarity, and create understanding..."

“...the facilitator said: ‘the work is not the workshop.’ I want to scream that from the mountaintops; what we need is to do right now.”

"...great because finally folks are paying attention to this. The terrible part is that it took this pandemic for many people to pay attention..."

“We use ‘leadership’ or ‘leader’ as one word, when it is full of so much meaning. How do we make space for the deeper complexities of leadership?”

“…as a leader, I can’t worry about who I’m not anymore, what I can’t do - it’s who I am and what I can do. That’s what’s helping me to get through this.”

“I intend to live the rest of my life with Love, in all the definitions of the name I selected for myself over 30 years ago. I am living intentionally in my Love of all aspects of the Culture of the African Diaspora.”

"I’m incredibly inspired by the number of frontline workers I know. Doctors, paramedics, grocery store workers. They give me a great deal of inspiration and perspective every single day…”