Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.
My life has been full of struggles – coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.
In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.
Cynicism isn’t smarter, it’s only safer. There’s nothing fluffy about optimism.
Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.
I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.
I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.
It’s just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.
Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.
But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see.
Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.
Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.