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.
ABERJHANIWriting for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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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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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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