America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

Everything becomes yours when we learn to long and love for everything.

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.