Every Day, Human Beings Are Worth Less.

Eventually, Someone Is Going To Pick Up A Brick.

You Are Worthy Of Love And You Deserve To Be Happy. You Have These Beautiful Qualities And Many More Because You Are Living The Gift Of A Human Incarnation. My Hope Is That You Will Embrace These Truths And Your Birthright To Live A Life Abundant In Love, Joy, And Celebration.

While I Think Storytelling Is A Meaningful Way To Spend Your Life... It Does Feel A Little Bit Secondary Or Off-point.

What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

In Baltimore They Can't Do Police Work To Save Their Lives. Now Because Of Freddie Gray They're Not Even Getting Out Of The Car And Policing Corners - They're On A Job Slowdown, Basically. Right Now If The Police Stopped Being Brutal, If We Got Police Shooting Under Control, And The Use Of Excessive Force, If We Have A Meaningful Societal Response To All That Stuff, And The Racism That Underlies It, The Question Still Remains: What Are They Policing, And Why?