We make the path by walking.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.

Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.