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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.

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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Die Light Miracle never Reflection Rhythm Step
If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
ABERJHANI

Birthday Cake Cognac Icing Kindness Life Smeared
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.
ABERJHANI

Agony Bridge Dance Flower Sorrow Spanning Thron
Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
ABERJHANI

Country Democracy Faith Phenomenal Political Symbolism Victory
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
ABERJHANI

Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
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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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
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
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.
ABERJHANI

Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
ABERJHANI

Civilization Clock Concrete Foundation Humanity Labor REquired
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
ABERJHANI

Dream Feet Path Peak Sandaled Shark Tread Vision Wisdom
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
ABERJHANI

Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
ABERJHANI

Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
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.
ABERJHANI

Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
ABERJHANI

Awareness Discipline Entrance Indeed Level Ordinary Seeker Will
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.
ABERJHANI

Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White

And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.

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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.

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