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Write a script with your life that others can read to understand the nature of the poetry of integrity.
To remember we are dust like the Dukes is healthy and holy. In fact, remembering dying should help us in our living.
Let’s be careful this year not to center all of our attention on what hurts, the friction or on what stings. Don’t forget to look for pearls. They’re being birthed all around us through oysters and other people.
Fear will make you shrink back rather than live into the grand future set before you.
If it wasn’t for the women—their voices, their courage, their strength, their wisdom, their ingenuity, their expertise, their love, their care and concern—where would we be?
The newness and change of healing come with costs.
Rather than seek revenge, Thurman calls us to revere. Revere one another. Honor the image of God in one another.
Dreaming may land you in a pit or in a Birmingham jail.
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
When we lose sight of the personality of others and act as if we own everything and owe nothing, we turn from love to hate and violence.
