I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
I got picked on a lot as a kid.
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY
My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.
Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?
his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning. . . to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.