To anyone reading this publication, I appreciate you. I appreciate you taking the time to read through my work and hopefully to dialogue with it. If who I am or what I think offends you, I am sorry. Not because I think I’m wrong necessarily, but I know I’m human. I know I can say something I don’t mean or—simply—say something mean. I’ve done my best to indict ideologies. Systems. Curses even. But I have tried to avoid indicting people. People deserve better. Just as God loves me, he loves you too. And anyone else for that matter. I pray you know that. So allow me to try my best to love unconditionally. As a matter of fact, I write these pieces to you because I love you unconditionally. So I say what I feel needs to be said. But always from a place of love. Always in an effort to combat hate and to foster love. I don’t think there is any quest greater than this. If the God to which I am referring is in fact, as it is written, love… then there is no greater quest than this. To write, and speak, and live, and learn, and teach… love. With that, I ask that you try your best to enjoy my work. Yet please, don’t love me too much for it. I am not the source, simply the vessel. (1 John 7–21)