I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.

Leave the hush to those who love like apes because together, you and I make vulgar sounds like a fervent sojourn in paradise.

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

Even lungs that are gasping are lungs that are trying.

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

If you don't get what you want, you want what you get

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

How big can we get before we get bad?

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

How many things are there which I do not want.

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.