Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

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

And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

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

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.