“Poets soar on the wings of hope.”

“… I am halfway between two worlds, the known and the unknown. I feel as transparent as the wind, as if my spirit is hovering in the sky, waiting to land. I am driving toward a future I can’t see, leaving behind a past that already feels distant. Nothing is clear – and yet the trees are sharp against the sky; I can see the hard outlines of everything.”

“I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”

“Slaves hung on determinedly to their selves, to their love of family, their wholeness. A shoemaker on the South Carolina Sea Islands expressed in his own way: “I’se lost an arm, but it hasn’t gone out of my brains.”

“Hope and breath, stay and breathe together, with entire life.”

“I hope,’ he would say, ‘I will not disappoint him too badly for becoming … the things I have become.”

“Because Hope survives best at the hearth’, I said. ‘Guard it for me, and I won’t be tempted to give up again.”

“There’s no better medicine for the soul that knowing you aren’t alone.”

“Something she’d done since the first – she kept him from yielding to the dark lure of the water until he could see for himself the hope found in the dawn of each new day.”

“That GREAT FAMILY REUNION in HEAVEN Awaits the Child of GOD!”

“Do you keep looking for fault in everything? that is what you will findDo you keep looking for cruelty in people around you? you’ll never find the good in themWhen you stop looking for the shadows, the LIGHT you will see”

“Smile to begin a friendshipHug and Handclasp to lift a soulYour hope can raise up their spiritsOne touch can show that you care”

“There’s no better medicine for the soul than knowing you aren’t alone.”

“Darkness only rushes in when the light is extinguished,”

“Love makes me believe that we can get through this together.”