Quote for Today: Craig D. Lounsbrough
I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in …
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, …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
An accident could happen to these oysters, a grain of sand could lie in the folds of muscle and irritate the flesh until in self-protection the flesh coated the grain …
Quote for Today: Robert Francis
I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love with …
Quote for Today: Nitya Prakash
Instant gratification is overrated. While it might seem exciting to be able to snap your fingers and have something you want materialize before your eyes, that won’t give you …
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 …