Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
ABERJHANIIn 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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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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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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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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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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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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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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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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