In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.
Like the one-tenth of our brain that we currently use, I think now that most if not all of us have access to about one-tenth of our possible feelings.
I don't have time' is the single most frequently given reason for living fractional, perpetually indentured lives, for not living fully or freely. Because time is life, when we say we don't have enough time, we are admitting that we don't have enough life.
We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you. ' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I just hope that we can strike a balance that portrays black folks and the black family in a light that's not extreme. Those are the types of characters that I find myself attracted to.
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
Nothing is ever behind us.