The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.