Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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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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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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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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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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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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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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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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