Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
ABERJHANIWhen 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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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.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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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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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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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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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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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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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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