“Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.”

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence

And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion – cools your fears with peace.

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As goes love so goes life.

The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.