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The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate___hen spread, lift up, fly.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else__ children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.__ dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart__ sacred lands?

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you._--from Past Present and Future are One

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.

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__ inhumanity to man.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers_ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

History dressed up in the glow of love__ kiss turned grief into beauty.