You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. - James Baldwin

If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.