Look and Listen #30: Aniyah Smith, Healing
Healing is a poem by Aniyah Smith, a New York based poet from Washington, DC. She was the 2018 DC Youth Poet Laureate, 2018 DC Youth Slam Grand Slam Team …
Quote for Today: Alan Dressler
When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, “It makes me feel so insignificant.” I answer, “The bigger and more impersonal the …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation …
Quote for Today: James Baldwin
The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man, it has created a new white …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Alexander
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop …
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to …
Quote for Today:Fernando Pessoa
Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we …
Quote for Today: Plato
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. — Plato, The Laws
Quote for Today: LaShawnda Jones
Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing …
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children’s laughter, birdsongs, …