We must all raise war against ignorance.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.

You have a great light to illuminate the world.

Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how some people just gave up. This darkness was overwhelming.

Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.