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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

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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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Genius Madness Mixture Trait Twin
Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Fail Friendship Humanity Intelligence
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Art Nourish Poetry Soul Substance Truth Wisdom
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
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.
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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White
Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Across Blood Cheer Heart Ignorance Million Ring Warriorspilling
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
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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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Emerge Example Individual Living Peace Unraveling
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
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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Being Creative Helping Human Jazz Poetry Tragedy
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Art Century Eliminate Hope Petry Unlikely War
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Agape Anguish Back Different Holding World
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Brain Execute Hour Instinct Love Outrageous
Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Accommodate Ending Musical Occupy Pathway

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

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