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.
ABERJHANIAnd the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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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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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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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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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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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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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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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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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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In 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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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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