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

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

'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 speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

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 ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.