“Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,

The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.

Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.

The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails

Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

Be mindful of dreams they make the numb feel again and the broken love again.

I am not broken, neither hurt. I am just disappointed.

The systen is not broken. It was built this way.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

We need progressive leaders everywhere who will reform our broken and racist criminal justice system.

I don’t mind getting a black eye or broken arm for a girl as long as she’s there to kiss it after.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.