True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts

My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.