. . . voyage through death/ to life upon these shores. |
. . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again. |
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. |
He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights. |
He was his own man. Because he was his own man, he was able to accomplish what he was able to accomplish in the civil rights movement. |
I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99. |
It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil. |
It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense. |
We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here. |
We must not be frightened nor cajoled/ into accepting evil as deliverance from evil./ We must go on struggling to be human,/ though monsters of abstractions/ police and threaten us. |