Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self..

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you..

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abra….

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he ….

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry..

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specifi….

As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implemen….

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 Remembr….

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate..

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely ob….

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take o….

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way….

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiri….

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic l….

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty..

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They ….

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls..

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whi….

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory..

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement..