'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'
I'm not a predictable black liberal.
As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.
Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
The FBI found Hillary Clinton to be extremely careless with classified information on her non-secured private e-mail server. While secretary of state. In addition to all we've been talking about, we're learning that Clinton actually lectured her own staff about the importance of cyber security back in 2010, telling them to do one thing while she herself was doing another thing.
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.