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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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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Act Anything Grace Hear Love
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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Intention Philosophical Seductive
Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Assumption Black Decontecttualization Guerrilla Individual Mainstream Man Media Representation
Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
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
The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Definite Enhance Freedom Harvest Principle Sustain
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Amazing Array Faces Life Possess Profound Sad
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Arm Buddhist Christian Instinct Love Man Outrageous Women
Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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Argue Country Experience Freedom Hampering Happiness Pursuit State
Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Awareness Choice Generation Legacy Next Secure
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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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World

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