Shortcuts aren't always.
The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy. We fed them and they ate it every day.
This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.
I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.
When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.
Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor. " for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like.
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.