We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.
Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.