I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

Peace is bald eagle Flying and flying over the treesIn search for a spotUnder the blue sky To build her nest to care.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

The only hope of transforming the world from the 'tsunami of violence' is for each of us to become the change we wish to see in the world.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low.

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play