The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.