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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.

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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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Dare to love yourself
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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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
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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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.

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