To dive into complexity is how we arrive at clarity. To question and examine the complexities of our time is neither to exclude the many nor to privilege the few.

For Dr. Nubia Kai, the cry for redemption can be heard beyond Dr. Martin Luther King’s journey “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”

What vehicles will we create or reimagine? What tools will we use or discard? How will we push, prod, and force America to make real the promises of democracy?

But wasn’t the point of it all to venture into the unknown in order to find what had been hidden by familiarity and complacency? So I stayed with you. Learning you meant that I had to (re)learn myself.

With or without Marcus, I am going to conquer the world. Do not forget this, Amy. Amy? Please do not crumble in the face of capital, nor any man capital presents. Amy? You hear me?

“Don’t tell me how a man died. Give me the things that made this man’s heart beat. That’s how to make it as a newspaperman.”

When I think of Ayiti...I can almost feel my skin...rip from itselfhaving made discourse withthe enemy and harvest toolall at once...

We did not see or remember,but her sound and rhythmand urgencymust have moved our own.

No eternal us, no eternal we. Just this moment in time that comes back hauntingly in a nostalgic mental game of what if.

I slip away sometimeinto dreaming and digging deep...