The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

As goes love so goes life.

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.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.