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.

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.

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?

I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.

Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you.

We ought to discover the beauty of creation through a walk in nature.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Without even knowing, a person goes around scattering their heart. That's why if you're with a smiling person, you end up smiling with them.