Sometimes A Word Is Found So Right

Equality And Self-determination Should Never Be Divided In The Name Of Religious Or Ideological Fervor.

I've Always Been Intrigued By The Way History Works, The Way We Decide What Is Mentioned.

Poetry Is Language At Its Most Distilled And Most Powerful.

Nothing Is Too Small. Nothing Is Too, Quote-unquote, Ordinary Or Insignificant. Those Are The Things That Make Up The Measure Of Our Days, And They're The Things That Sustain Us. And They're The Things That Certainly Can Become Worthy Of Poetry.

I Grew Up In Ohio, Where Civil-rights Accomplishments Had Already Begun To Accelerate Before Martin Luther King Appeared. In Hindsight, We Know That Many People, Black And White, Were Instrumental In Changing The Jim Crow Status Quo On All Levels.