because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History. - Derek Walcott

I never thought I would see the day when America (which is based on the idea of liberty, from which the world Liberal comes) would become so self-centered and hypocritical. I mean if democracy considers liberal to be a term of abuse, then we should be terrified. A liberal is someone who believes in liberty. And if it is wrong to be liberal, then the other side has to be fascist.

I read; I travel; I become

is the same voices that, in the slave ship, smile at their brothers, “Boy, is just the whip,