“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.”

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.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.