Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who ….

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established..

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew..

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 ….

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly..

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks..

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 t….

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love..

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 ot….

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 ….

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping ….

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same..

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself..

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor..

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique….

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive fo….

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its….

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mir….

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most….

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbow….

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendid….