Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

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

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

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.