And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
ABERJHANIPoetry, 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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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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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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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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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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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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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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