Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?
As travelers, it is our responsibility to adapt, otherwise we miss the whole point: the opportunity to gain a new perspective.
If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.
The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.
My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.
Seeing the world is a prerequisite to understanding one’s place in it.
Travel does not exist without home. . . . If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.
Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects. . . I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer.
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. . . whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!
That's why I love music so much. It completely saved me. There are so many feelings you can't explain, and you can hear one note on a guitar and somehow that sound explains what you can't put into words.