To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

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.

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.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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