Occupation: Columnist Birth: July 8, 1957
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge..
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starv….
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived..
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was..
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumpha….
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary..
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid..
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 damn….
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another..
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary..
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were….
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all ….
At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge..
Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the ….
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader..
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world ….
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable..
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wo….
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the….
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new..
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: betw….