The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
ABERJHANIWhere she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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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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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.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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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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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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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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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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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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