It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken. '
Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
Let's just say I know a guy who knows a guy who knows another guy.