Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.

U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?

to be black is to be very-hot.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved.

The world is still in deleveraging.

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and it is who we are wherever we are.