Any great artist is

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they’re transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death. Cornel West

In that chocolate side

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California – that was beginning of my death shudders, that’s why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young – that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck … Read more