WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:09.760 align:middle line:84% So I love Q and A. I know I've kept you long. 00:00:09.760 --> 00:00:14.710 align:middle line:84% And if you'd like to ask anything, or say anything, 00:00:14.710 --> 00:00:16.990 align:middle line:84% we can do that for maybe five minutes. 00:00:16.990 --> 00:00:18.822 align:middle line:90% And then-- 00:00:18.822 --> 00:00:20.530 align:middle line:84% Just raise your hand and I'll come around 00:00:20.530 --> 00:00:21.618 align:middle line:90% with the microphone. 00:00:21.618 --> 00:00:30.060 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:34.350 align:middle line:84% Yeah, one of the things I was saying before I started 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:41.070 align:middle line:84% was there are always these amazingly brave people who 00:00:41.070 --> 00:00:44.580 align:middle line:84% stand up and talk about how the prison industrial complex 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:46.210 align:middle line:90% affects them. 00:00:46.210 --> 00:00:52.680 align:middle line:84% And I think that more of us have to join that army of people. 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:57.360 align:middle line:84% More of us have to understand that we don't, as Wendell Berry 00:00:57.360 --> 00:01:03.820 align:middle line:84% says, "We don't live away from each other. 00:01:03.820 --> 00:01:06.360 align:middle line:90% We live with each other." 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.050 align:middle line:84% And everything that happens in this society, 00:01:10.050 --> 00:01:13.890 align:middle line:84% even if we can lock our doors and put on our new security 00:01:13.890 --> 00:01:18.840 align:middle line:84% system, and our air filters can work and run all night, 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.270 align:middle line:90% it affects us. 00:01:21.270 --> 00:01:26.430 align:middle line:84% You can't have a country of people imprisoned 00:01:26.430 --> 00:01:28.800 align:middle line:84% for various things, for various reasons, 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:32.970 align:middle line:84% and stay there for hundreds of years, 00:01:32.970 --> 00:01:37.270 align:middle line:84% and that not come back to affect the society that we live in. 00:01:37.270 --> 00:01:40.080 align:middle line:84% And I think so many conversations 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:44.850 align:middle line:84% that I have with people, it's about them and us, right? 00:01:44.850 --> 00:01:48.360 align:middle line:90% There's an isthmus between us. 00:01:48.360 --> 00:01:50.100 align:middle line:84% And I don't think that isthmus exists. 00:01:50.100 --> 00:01:53.010 align:middle line:84% I think we want it there to feel safe. 00:01:53.010 --> 00:01:59.280 align:middle line:84% But the privatization of violence and injustice 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:03.510 align:middle line:84% is affecting all of us every day. 00:02:03.510 --> 00:02:06.870 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:11.680 align:middle line:90% 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.600 align:middle line:84% And it might seem like a stretch to talk 00:02:13.600 --> 00:02:16.930 align:middle line:84% about a horrific thing that happened in 1944, 00:02:16.930 --> 00:02:18.590 align:middle line:90% but I don't think so. 00:02:18.590 --> 00:02:20.060 align:middle line:90% I think it's still happening. 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:21.290 align:middle line:90% I know it's still happening. 00:02:21.290 --> 00:02:23.390 align:middle line:84% And it's happening in different kinds of ways. 00:02:23.390 --> 00:02:24.305 align:middle line:90% And we don't see it. 00:02:24.305 --> 00:02:25.930 align:middle line:84% You're not going to see a camera on it. 00:02:25.930 --> 00:02:28.360 align:middle line:84% You're not going to see a report given on what 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:29.605 align:middle line:90% happens behind those walls. 00:02:29.605 --> 00:02:33.430 align:middle line:90% 00:02:33.430 --> 00:02:35.500 align:middle line:90% We have to open our eyes. 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:37.360 align:middle line:84% I really think we have to get involved. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:40.030 align:middle line:84% And I really think we have to not 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:43.600 align:middle line:84% say that this is-- not give $100 and say this is somebody else's 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:45.140 align:middle line:90% problem. 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:49.270 align:middle line:84% I think we have to say this is our problem. 00:02:49.270 --> 00:02:52.840 align:middle line:84% I didn't know that Arizona had those kind of statistics 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:57.640 align:middle line:84% that you read that were so striking. 00:02:57.640 --> 00:03:02.830 align:middle line:84% And I'm not pulling Arizona out of any lineup, right? 00:03:02.830 --> 00:03:06.460 align:middle line:84% The whole country has its own numbers like that. 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:08.390 align:middle line:90% South Carolina certainly does. 00:03:08.390 --> 00:03:12.440 align:middle line:84% So I don't know if I was giving you time to ask a question, 00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:13.905 align:middle line:84% but I don't know if you have any. 00:03:13.905 --> 00:03:25.610 align:middle line:90% 00:03:25.610 --> 00:03:27.280 align:middle line:84% Thank you for enduring this cold. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:29.030 align:middle line:84% I hope the heaters are working back there. 00:03:29.030 --> 00:03:35.030 align:middle line:90% 00:03:35.030 --> 00:03:37.593 align:middle line:84% You've written about George Bush and Condoleezza Rice. 00:03:37.593 --> 00:03:40.010 align:middle line:84% Have you been tempted to write about our current president 00:03:40.010 --> 00:03:41.070 align:middle line:90% and his administration? 00:03:41.070 --> 00:03:41.570 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:03:41.570 --> 00:03:43.778 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:43.778 --> 00:03:44.990 align:middle line:90% 00:03:44.990 --> 00:03:48.740 align:middle line:84% There's a poem in the new book about that. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:51.590 align:middle line:90% I'll say that. 00:03:51.590 --> 00:03:53.540 align:middle line:90% If it wasn't 8:30 I'd read it. 00:03:53.540 --> 00:03:59.150 align:middle line:84% But I feel very, very strongly about what's going on 00:03:59.150 --> 00:04:00.680 align:middle line:90% in my country right now. 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:04.160 align:middle line:84% I feel very strongly that art and poetry, 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:08.600 align:middle line:84% and being conscious, and walking through this with my eyes 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:13.970 align:middle line:84% open, and licking the tip of my pen every day to pen something 00:04:13.970 --> 00:04:15.090 align:middle line:90% is very important. 00:04:15.090 --> 00:04:18.440 align:middle line:84% I remember when the election happened in 2006 00:04:18.440 --> 00:04:21.079 align:middle line:84% and the great American writer Toni Morrison 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:25.290 align:middle line:90% was asked, what should we do? 00:04:25.290 --> 00:04:28.520 align:middle line:90% And she said, "Get to work." 00:04:28.520 --> 00:04:29.275 align:middle line:90% And I love that. 00:04:29.275 --> 00:04:30.650 align:middle line:84% And I think about that every day. 00:04:30.650 --> 00:04:36.400 align:middle line:84% How important it is to not be of heavy heart. 00:04:36.400 --> 00:04:38.150 align:middle line:84% Well, you can be of heavy heart, but don't 00:04:38.150 --> 00:04:41.040 align:middle line:90% be dissuaded from action. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.560 align:middle line:84% And there are so many amazing things 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.670 align:middle line:84% happening across the country and across the world that 00:04:46.670 --> 00:04:49.910 align:middle line:84% reminds me every day of how good we are 00:04:49.910 --> 00:04:52.340 align:middle line:90% and how much we need each other. 00:04:52.340 --> 00:04:55.730 align:middle line:84% And how much we have to link arms and, as my father would 00:04:55.730 --> 00:04:56.840 align:middle line:90% say, fight the good fight. 00:04:56.840 --> 00:05:02.143 align:middle line:90% 00:05:02.143 --> 00:05:03.435 align:middle line:90% I saw, did you have a question? 00:05:03.435 --> 00:05:07.200 align:middle line:90% 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:09.540 align:middle line:90% Sure. 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:11.220 align:middle line:84% You don't have to, I just saw your hand. 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:14.160 align:middle line:90% 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.910 align:middle line:90% You made it. 00:05:14.910 --> 00:05:17.208 align:middle line:90% Do you feel better? 00:05:17.208 --> 00:05:18.077 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:05:18.077 --> 00:05:20.160 align:middle line:84% Well, you've been answering my question all along. 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:27.780 align:middle line:84% But it's just about the relationship between memory 00:05:27.780 --> 00:05:29.790 align:middle line:90% and the need to remember. 00:05:29.790 --> 00:05:34.080 align:middle line:84% And at the same time to move forward. 00:05:34.080 --> 00:05:39.998 align:middle line:84% The balance between those two, that story is so necessary. 00:05:39.998 --> 00:05:41.415 align:middle line:84% I think your understanding of what 00:05:41.415 --> 00:05:44.920 align:middle line:84% the question is that I'm getting at, the way you work straddles 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:45.420 align:middle line:90% that. 00:05:45.420 --> 00:05:47.820 align:middle line:84% And do you you balance those two? 00:05:47.820 --> 00:05:51.140 align:middle line:90% History is critical to me. 00:05:51.140 --> 00:05:54.030 align:middle line:84% I'm always looking in the stacks. 00:05:54.030 --> 00:05:57.660 align:middle line:84% When this story came up about George Stinney Jr. 00:05:57.660 --> 00:05:59.340 align:middle line:84% I knew I wanted to be in the courtroom 00:05:59.340 --> 00:06:02.280 align:middle line:84% to see what the modern day response would 00:06:02.280 --> 00:06:03.600 align:middle line:90% be in South Carolina. 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.210 align:middle line:90% 00:06:06.210 --> 00:06:07.740 align:middle line:90% So I had to be there. 00:06:07.740 --> 00:06:11.250 align:middle line:84% I didn't know-- and when Tyler and the program 00:06:11.250 --> 00:06:14.130 align:middle line:84% called to say I had been invited to be 00:06:14.130 --> 00:06:18.810 align:middle line:84% a part of the Art for Justice, I was both mad and inspired, 00:06:18.810 --> 00:06:22.470 align:middle line:84% because this was waiting in the wings. 00:06:22.470 --> 00:06:26.550 align:middle line:84% I knew this was the moment to sort of flesh it out, 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:27.300 align:middle line:90% what had happened. 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:29.610 align:middle line:90% This happened in 2014. 00:06:29.610 --> 00:06:32.490 align:middle line:84% So I had the notes from the courtroom 00:06:32.490 --> 00:06:36.150 align:middle line:84% and I got to work immediately on it. 00:06:36.150 --> 00:06:43.367 align:middle line:84% So as I composed it, I was thinking, this is 70 years ago. 00:06:43.367 --> 00:06:45.450 align:middle line:84% People will say this has nothing to do with today. 00:06:45.450 --> 00:06:49.050 align:middle line:84% And I vehemently disagree with that. 00:06:49.050 --> 00:06:53.370 align:middle line:84% And there's a story before this one about somebody else 00:06:53.370 --> 00:06:56.280 align:middle line:90% that that moment was built on. 00:06:56.280 --> 00:06:59.610 align:middle line:90% And we keep doing this. 00:06:59.610 --> 00:07:02.790 align:middle line:84% We keep saying that we will say I'm sorry. 00:07:02.790 --> 00:07:06.460 align:middle line:84% Then 70 years later, and I think, that's not good enough. 00:07:06.460 --> 00:07:08.500 align:middle line:90% I think we have to stop. 00:07:08.500 --> 00:07:11.250 align:middle line:84% We have to stop this kind of treatment of people, 00:07:11.250 --> 00:07:13.290 align:middle line:84% and throwing them aside and thinking 00:07:13.290 --> 00:07:17.280 align:middle line:84% that the mistakes that we have made won't live on. 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:18.930 align:middle line:90% And in fact they do live on. 00:07:18.930 --> 00:07:22.470 align:middle line:84% And they inform and educate us in all the wrong ways 00:07:22.470 --> 00:07:24.780 align:middle line:90% about 2019. 00:07:24.780 --> 00:07:25.890 align:middle line:90% And 2020. 00:07:25.890 --> 00:07:27.040 align:middle line:90% And going forward. 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:28.958 align:middle line:90% So I study history. 00:07:28.958 --> 00:07:30.000 align:middle line:90% I'm a student of history. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.310 align:middle line:84% And I'm also a student of the history nobody 00:07:32.310 --> 00:07:33.720 align:middle line:90% wants to talk about. 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:35.220 align:middle line:90% The history that is buried. 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:38.070 align:middle line:84% And they try to stack everything on top of it 00:07:38.070 --> 00:07:41.520 align:middle line:84% so that we don't know what we did. 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:46.020 align:middle line:84% Because we don't want to turn-- we want 18 words or less. 00:07:46.020 --> 00:07:47.790 align:middle line:90% We want 10 years back. 00:07:47.790 --> 00:07:49.080 align:middle line:90% Not 20, not 30. 00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:50.850 align:middle line:90% Oh, did we do that? 00:07:50.850 --> 00:07:52.320 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:53.020 align:middle line:90% We did that. 00:07:53.020 --> 00:07:54.000 align:middle line:90% And there's a reason we did it. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.000 align:middle line:84% And there must be a reason we don't do it again. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:02.800 align:middle line:90% 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:03.865 align:middle line:90% I'm sorry it's cold. 00:08:03.865 --> 00:08:07.015 align:middle line:90% 00:08:07.015 --> 00:08:11.310 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:08:11.310 --> 00:08:14.100 align:middle line:90% Last one? 00:08:14.100 --> 00:08:17.450 align:middle line:84% This is the last one and then we'll 00:08:17.450 --> 00:08:21.200 align:middle line:90% hit the fireplace or something. 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:23.722 align:middle line:90% Yeah it's working over here. 00:08:23.722 --> 00:08:25.430 align:middle line:84% I appreciate you coming out here, sister. 00:08:25.430 --> 00:08:28.640 align:middle line:90% I appreciate you. 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:30.500 align:middle line:84% Earlier before you were introduced, 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:33.830 align:middle line:84% Stephanie spoke about Teré, who's one of our favorite local 00:08:33.830 --> 00:08:35.030 align:middle line:90% poets. 00:08:35.030 --> 00:08:37.580 align:middle line:84% Several years back when Donald Trump first 00:08:37.580 --> 00:08:41.990 align:middle line:84% became president there was a rally that we had downtown. 00:08:41.990 --> 00:08:43.909 align:middle line:90% Black Lives Matter. 00:08:43.909 --> 00:08:46.790 align:middle line:84% And a few of us spoke, obviously, 00:08:46.790 --> 00:08:50.270 align:middle line:84% with an alignment of where our spirits were at the time. 00:08:50.270 --> 00:08:52.880 align:middle line:90% Because it was in February. 00:08:52.880 --> 00:08:55.040 align:middle line:84% Teré was the only one that spoke about love. 00:08:55.040 --> 00:08:58.220 align:middle line:84% I'm going to ask you to, next time you speak with Teré, 00:08:58.220 --> 00:09:00.740 align:middle line:84% to share that poem with you, because it's probably 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:02.090 align:middle line:90% my favorite one by him. 00:09:02.090 --> 00:09:02.600 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:09:02.600 --> 00:09:04.610 align:middle line:90% Speaking about their wife. 00:09:04.610 --> 00:09:10.850 align:middle line:84% But I wanted to ask you as a poet something that I've found 00:09:10.850 --> 00:09:16.460 align:middle line:84% is difficult, is for people to say they need love. 00:09:16.460 --> 00:09:21.410 align:middle line:84% Conversations about love tend to be either pasty romanticized 00:09:21.410 --> 00:09:23.570 align:middle line:90% versions. 00:09:23.570 --> 00:09:26.720 align:middle line:84% Or they tend to be something amiss, if you will. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:27.220 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:30.320 align:middle line:84% And I think that people are afraid to be vulnerable, 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:32.420 align:middle line:90% to admit that we do need it. 00:09:32.420 --> 00:09:35.030 align:middle line:84% That it's at the center of what is missing out 00:09:35.030 --> 00:09:39.260 align:middle line:84% of pretty much all voices that are standing and holding 00:09:39.260 --> 00:09:40.790 align:middle line:90% platforms. 00:09:40.790 --> 00:09:43.100 align:middle line:84% So as a poet and everything that you've 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:45.320 align:middle line:84% been charged to speak to, especially when times 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:46.820 align:middle line:84% they charge like they are right now, 00:09:46.820 --> 00:09:48.847 align:middle line:84% do you feel maybe in your spirit, 00:09:48.847 --> 00:09:50.930 align:middle line:84% like the thing we need more than anything is love? 00:09:50.930 --> 00:09:51.680 align:middle line:90% Absolutely. 00:09:51.680 --> 00:09:52.340 align:middle line:90% You just said-- 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:53.660 align:middle line:90% How do you overcome it? 00:09:53.660 --> 00:09:54.770 align:middle line:90% You don't overcome it. 00:09:54.770 --> 00:09:56.150 align:middle line:90% You just keep trying to live it. 00:09:56.150 --> 00:09:59.240 align:middle line:84% Today we were trying to live it at Cape. 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.360 align:middle line:84% We went in there and those kids were like walled up. 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:05.990 align:middle line:84% You know, like-- everything they could throw on themselves 00:10:05.990 --> 00:10:10.620 align:middle line:84% to come in that room, they tried to do that. 00:10:10.620 --> 00:10:14.270 align:middle line:84% And what I was doing was looking at them in their eye, 00:10:14.270 --> 00:10:15.980 align:middle line:90% and I didn't say I love you. 00:10:15.980 --> 00:10:19.270 align:middle line:84% But I was telling them with every inch of me, I love you. 00:10:19.270 --> 00:10:20.270 align:middle line:90% And I was telling them-- 00:10:20.270 --> 00:10:21.420 align:middle line:90% I was being vulnerable. 00:10:21.420 --> 00:10:23.045 align:middle line:84% And I was telling them about my family. 00:10:23.045 --> 00:10:26.010 align:middle line:84% I was telling about what I was like at 13, and 14, and 15. 00:10:26.010 --> 00:10:27.560 align:middle line:90% And why did I want to write? 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:29.870 align:middle line:90% Because I was the outlier. 00:10:29.870 --> 00:10:31.790 align:middle line:84% Because I was outside of everything. 00:10:31.790 --> 00:10:33.920 align:middle line:84% And adults would tell me, you don't 00:10:33.920 --> 00:10:35.270 align:middle line:90% know what you're talking about. 00:10:35.270 --> 00:10:36.645 align:middle line:84% And then I'd get their attention. 00:10:36.645 --> 00:10:37.145 align:middle line:90% You know? 00:10:37.145 --> 00:10:38.930 align:middle line:84% Because I was like, that happened to me! 00:10:38.930 --> 00:10:41.120 align:middle line:84% You know, so I was telling them in every way I could 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.730 align:middle line:90% in 62 minutes, I love you. 00:10:43.730 --> 00:10:44.530 align:middle line:90% I started to cry. 00:10:44.530 --> 00:10:46.373 align:middle line:90% And I was like, don't do that! 00:10:46.373 --> 00:10:48.290 align:middle line:84% You don't need to-- and I was like, forget it. 00:10:48.290 --> 00:10:49.370 align:middle line:90% I'm doing it. 00:10:49.370 --> 00:10:51.170 align:middle line:90% It's what I do. 00:10:51.170 --> 00:10:51.860 align:middle line:90% You know? 00:10:51.860 --> 00:10:54.860 align:middle line:84% And then the little brother down front said, "She's crying!" 00:10:54.860 --> 00:10:57.680 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:03.230 align:middle line:84% And I was like, [SNIFFS] And so if I can't be vulnerable, 00:11:03.230 --> 00:11:05.510 align:middle line:84% they're not going to be vulnerable back. 00:11:05.510 --> 00:11:09.440 align:middle line:84% And if you don't understand that-- it is a give and take. 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.420 align:middle line:90% Love is a conversation. 00:11:11.420 --> 00:11:12.890 align:middle line:84% Love is not something you give me. 00:11:12.890 --> 00:11:14.780 align:middle line:84% Love is something we make together. 00:11:14.780 --> 00:11:19.640 align:middle line:90% And too many people get afraid. 00:11:19.640 --> 00:11:24.390 align:middle line:84% And they run for the hills when you start talking about that. 00:11:24.390 --> 00:11:28.250 align:middle line:84% And we're not talking about social media love. 00:11:28.250 --> 00:11:30.350 align:middle line:84% We're not talking about Twitter love. 00:11:30.350 --> 00:11:33.170 align:middle line:84% We're talking about what do you need from me? 00:11:33.170 --> 00:11:36.620 align:middle line:84% What I wanted to do today was go up to those young people 00:11:36.620 --> 00:11:39.020 align:middle line:90% and hug them. 00:11:39.020 --> 00:11:41.750 align:middle line:90% And I couldn't touch them. 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:44.720 align:middle line:84% I coming from a family where people put their hands on you. 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:46.610 align:middle line:90% They don't have to say anything. 00:11:46.610 --> 00:11:48.770 align:middle line:84% You just know they're there, right? 00:11:48.770 --> 00:11:51.410 align:middle line:84% I do that to my students at the University of South Carolina. 00:11:51.410 --> 00:11:53.637 align:middle line:84% I did it at University of Kentucky. 00:11:53.637 --> 00:11:55.970 align:middle line:84% And my colleagues are saying, you're going to get fired. 00:11:55.970 --> 00:11:58.010 align:middle line:84% Or you're going to get-- like somebody's going 00:11:58.010 --> 00:11:59.600 align:middle line:90% to come at you with a lawsuit. 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:00.860 align:middle line:90% I was like, come on at it. 00:12:00.860 --> 00:12:02.570 align:middle line:90% Come on, bring it! 00:12:02.570 --> 00:12:03.650 align:middle line:90% Bring it! 00:12:03.650 --> 00:12:07.130 align:middle line:84% If I have to go down because I hugged my student? 00:12:07.130 --> 00:12:07.910 align:middle line:90% I'm going down! 00:12:07.910 --> 00:12:09.890 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:12:09.890 --> 00:12:12.950 align:middle line:84% And I will be proud of that, and I will stand alone 00:12:12.950 --> 00:12:14.900 align:middle line:90% in that valley. 00:12:14.900 --> 00:12:18.500 align:middle line:84% You know, so sometimes it's not the popular thing. 00:12:18.500 --> 00:12:19.940 align:middle line:90% But you still have to do it. 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:22.430 align:middle line:84% You still have to put that in front of you. 00:12:22.430 --> 00:12:25.070 align:middle line:84% Even when you're talking about difficult things, 00:12:25.070 --> 00:12:27.560 align:middle line:84% even when you're calling people out about stuff. 00:12:27.560 --> 00:12:29.390 align:middle line:90% My arms are open. 00:12:29.390 --> 00:12:31.190 align:middle line:84% I think that's the only way we're 00:12:31.190 --> 00:12:36.440 align:middle line:84% going to move off this iceberg into a better place where 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:42.800 align:middle line:84% we remember that we all live here together. 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:44.810 align:middle line:90% We don't live on islands. 00:12:44.810 --> 00:12:47.510 align:middle line:84% You can't lock the door that I'm talking about. 00:12:47.510 --> 00:12:50.360 align:middle line:84% Because we breathe the same air, and we need each other. 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:52.700 align:middle line:84% So I'm so glad you talked about love. 00:12:52.700 --> 00:12:54.750 align:middle line:84% I think it's a beautiful place to end. 00:12:54.750 --> 00:12:57.500 align:middle line:84% And thank you all for coming out and for participating. 00:12:57.500 --> 00:13:00.250 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:13:00.250 --> 00:13:03.000 align:middle line:90%