It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.