In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

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

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

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

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 Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.