“Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”

To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.

Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.

It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.

Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.