The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
ABERJHANIThe 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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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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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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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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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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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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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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