“I am suffocating in the vacancy of the overflowing space, can you feel me reaching out?”

Living in a constant paradox, begging to be held and released by gravity, to be grounded and free. But my feet pressed against the earth yearn for the clouds above my fingertips adrift whispering I don’t want to be at the mercy of gravity.

The cloak of death has favorites when its strings are being controlled by the puppeteer of hatred.

Let your memories fall into place, you don’t have to carry all of them at once.

Why are we told to be afraid to hurt? Why do we avoid, run and hide? Cover up inside with shields of armor, Our shins, and elbows made of pads of plastic; We are not made of glass and tattered bits, It’s not weakness when our strength builds us to last.

There is no sunrise as beautiful as the one where you realize you are worth a million suns.

Where do I stand when neither side recognizes me as one of them.

For time does nothing for you if you do nothing with it.

Can you taste the colors your ancestors weaved into, The armors of resilience they wore; Can you taste the colors of the unpaved path before you, waiting to be colored by you?

Have you ever heard silence? How do you hear the silence? You don’t, you feel it. And they stared at the silence between them.

How can I not love you from a distance when you breathe the same way I do, Have the same needs I do?  Search for the same purpose and meaning that I do? Why must there be me over here and you over there that do not live in the same world?

They are simple creatures they see right through you and if by chance they miss you, they will make you believe you were never there.

Why must your suffering cause my peace and my peace your suffering?

It is not thanks to you but in spite of you that we have just one day to look down from the top – The mountains we move should have never been there.

For him, my body was for him.

If ever happiness happens to forget you even a little bit, never completely forget about it.

You are a microscope when you are in the present magnifying every sense absorbing the richness around you, don’t lose sight of your insight.

I think I can help others just by my example.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.

T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Helpless does not equal worthless.

I’m not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!