And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

We each survive in our own way.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

Theatre just fills me up so much.

Now that you have the knowledge of the gospel, you're called to do better.

I'm not high maintenance.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world