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“Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.”
“Having been fucked up by my family and community, Ill never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and neurosis begins. But as a gay person I know Im a vital element in our civilization.”
“I stand in my own power now, the questions of permission that I used to choke on for my every meal now dead in a fallen heap, and when they tell me that I will fall, I nod. I will fall, I reply, an...”
“now I'm blinking in a new gloamingand all I see as I'm stretched low down hereis a world of women flat on their frozenfaces. we are the ground itself, corporealcarpet of cells, softness calloused h...”
“And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.”
“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)”
“That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we ...”
“The only sweeter than union is reunion.”
“The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into somethin...”
“Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.”
“You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.”
“And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.”
“The people who pray together build together a better world”
“That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
“My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slippin...”
“the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.”
“Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that...”
“(about Gideon's army)Like the pitchers that held the torches, our bodies are weak and fragile, yet they hold the fire of the Holy Spirit. That fire burns in us waiting to be released so that others...”
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
