“As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,”

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

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?

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity

Where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it’s a hit.

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you’re born with it.

Hey, bro…So there’s like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.

When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds.

Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.