In his own time and in his own way, the Lord will bring about his miracles.
I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.
If faith is your motivation, share that.
Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.
I have lived according to rules that I embrace, but I don't feel like my job is to force others to embrace the rules that I embrace for myself.
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.
If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.
The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.
Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.
There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.
I am also producing and writing a bunch.