soul flower.

“Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.”

Home Is Where the Hatred Is (1971)

“Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because if there was, I would have found it by now Because it’s easier to run, Easier than staying and finding out you’re the only one who didn’t run Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described, As in “the long run” Or as in having “given someone a run for his money” Or as in “running out of time” Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from, Not without showing the fear as I see it now Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer Because of you and because of that nice That you quietly, quickly be causing And because you’re going to see me run soon and because you’re going to know why I’m running then You’ll know then Because I’m not going to tell you now”

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”

Tired

My People By Langston Hughes

“You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but … the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.”

“I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.”

We meet ourselves time and time again in thousand disguises on the path of life.