“All the colors of the rainbowAll of voices of the windEvery dream that reaches outThat reaches out to find where love beginsEvery word of every storyEvery star in every skyEvery corner of creation lives to testifychorus:For as long as I shall liveI will testify to loveI'll be a witness in the silences when words are not enoughWith every breath I take I will give thanks to God aboveFor as long as I shall liveI will testify to loveFrom the mountains to the valleysFrom the rivers to the seaEvery hand that reaches outEvery hand that reaches out to offer peaceEvery simple act of mercyEvery step to kingdom comeAll the Hope in every heart will speak what love has donechoruschurus”

“Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”

“Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.”

“As long as I shall liveI shall always beMy Self-and no other,Just Me.”

“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.”

“You are the seer. Not quite human, strangely ethereal, ever cryptic, the voice soothed even as it unnerved me. The words were familiar, but every time I thought I remembered where I had heard them, the memory floated just out of my reach.”