Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
I want a baby of my very own one day, but it seems that my being male is a BIIIIT of a problem.
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
It had become their creation, and they all would know it.
We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.
Hate did not give way to heroism.
Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
I will be stronger than my sadness.
You are either free or not free
Darkness and light. Black and white. But which is death, and which is life?
Black hole is where you can go and be nothing.
After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end.
If a black black cat crosses your path, it suggests that the animal is going somewhere.
