Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
ABERJHANIThey both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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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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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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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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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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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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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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