We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… were adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And thats the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. – Henry Louis Gates