Get a team of like-minded individuals around you. Understand this is hard work.

You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.

The more I read the Scriptures I find an overwhelming case of Scriptures being concerned with the poor, outcast, widow, foreigner and marginalized.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.

Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.

Hip-hop, you're close to 50. When can we grow up?

I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.

The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with Zacchaeus and the prostitute in John 8.

I'm in love, with a higher love!

I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

I love that Jesus showed He cared while at the same time telling the truth.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Christianity is a sacred act of knowing the holy servant of God, Jesus Christ.

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.