When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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 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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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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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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