When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
ABERJHANINelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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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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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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