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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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Intention Philosophical Seductive
Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Groping Military Oppression Political Suffocating Through
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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Agony Bridge Dance Flower Sorrow Spanning Thron
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Dream Humanity King Manifestation Martin Luther King
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Angel Elation Leave Light Rich Rose Vision
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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Image Inside Sacred Smell Unbroken Unity
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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Bodies Broken Carry Dream Giving Up Man Mind Remembrance Survivor Weight
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Distorting Early Historic Invested Mandelas Moment Nature Opponent Resource True
Writing 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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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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Civilization Clock Concrete Foundation Humanity Labor REquired
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Change Fear Human Humanity Nature Scariest Variable World
And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Age Brutal Humanity Unforgiving War
Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Angel Behold Bliss Lover Peace Place

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

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