The only thing that prisons demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.