We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
ABERJHANIHow many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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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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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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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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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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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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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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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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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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