Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight . . . according to our belief.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.