I Am Working Never To Be Late

As A Child I Was Taught That To Tell The Truth Was Often Painful. As An Adult I Have Learned That Not To Tell The Truth Is More Painful, And That The Fear Of Telling The Truth - Whatever The Truth May Be - That Fear Is The Most Painful Sensation Of A Moral Life.

To Believe Is To Become What You Believe.

To Rescue Our Children We Will Have To Let Them Save Us From The Power We Embody: We Will Have To Trust The Very Difference That They Forever Personify. And We Will Have To Allow Them The Choice, Without Fear Of Death: That They May Come And Do Likewise Or That They May Come And That We Will Follow Them, That A Little Child Will Lead Us Back To The Child We Will Always Be, Vulnerable And Wanting And Hurting For Love And For Beauty.

What's Important About Poetry In The Context Of Leadership Is That Most Of The Time, Power Has To Do With Dominance. But Poetry Is Never About Dominance. Poetry Is Powerful But It Cannot Even Aspire To Dominate Anyone. It Means Making A Connection. That's What It Means.

... The Histories Of Blacks And Jews In Bondage And Out Of Bondage, Have Been Blood Histories Pursued Through Our Kindred Searchings For Self-determination. Let This Blood Be A Stain Of Honor That We Share. Let Us Not Now Become Enemies To Ourselves And To Each Other.