Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

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.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

As the saying goes, you might as well be yourself; everyone else is taken.