Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Hope is the struggle of the soul breaking loose from what is perishable and attesting her eternity.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die and there will be no hope for Tibet after the Dalai Lama passes away.
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies and that's where I found my material in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired you don't come home your best self.
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
Classes struggle some classes triumph others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
It's a struggle but that's why we exist so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves or their history all over again.