I was raised inside the gang culture.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.