Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
ABERJHANIHis [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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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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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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