If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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Dare to love yourself
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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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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