True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.