From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
ABERJHANIAs sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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