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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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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Depth Happen Know Peak Soul True
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Act Construction Mirror Promise Reality Word Writing
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Joy Lovely Pain School Temple
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Answer Compassion Empathy Humanity Invariably Scenario
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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Egoless Humility Rainbow Shine Shining World
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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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
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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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Beauty Birth Heart Night Rescue Scormed Traumatize Voice
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Broken Healing Muddy Sparkle Wing
They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White
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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Bigotry Black Disparities Fuel Recognize Unwarranted White
Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Angel Behold Bliss Lover Peace Place
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Change Fear Human Humanity Nature Scariest Variable World

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