The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
ABERJHANIAnd make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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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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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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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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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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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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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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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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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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