“they are building walls and prisons, we are building children’s visions”
“we are the ones who’ll heal the hate”
poetry that beautifully expresses the challenges of this seemingly impossible calling to seek justice and peace and why we do it - because we all just want to go home again
TEDxRamallah - Mark Gonzales مارك غونزالس - Wage Beauty (by TEDxTalks)
Poet. Scholar. Lover of Life. Mark Gonzales is an HBO Def Poet with a Master’s in Education, a Mexican and a Muslim, a Khalil Gibran meets Pablo Neruda in a lyrical break dance cypher, Mark lives in the center of intersections. From Palestinian refugee camps, universities in Beirut, foster homes in Portugal, to cities across the Americas, he transcends citizenship identity to break borders and wage beauty across continents through culture. He is respected internationally for his creative approaches to suicide prevention, human rights and human development via performance, photojournalism, and narrative therapy.
He Is Amazing ..
(via intotheordinary)
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“As if the sorrows and stupidities of the world could overwhelm me now that I realize what we all are. I wish everyone could realize this, but there is no way of telling people they are all walking around shining like the sun.” - Thomas Merton
