“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”

As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,

They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.