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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Dream Humanity King Manifestation Martin Luther King
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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Conclusion Embrace Hope Humanity Post Successful
Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Fail Friendship Humanity Intelligence
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Angel Elation Leave Light Rich Rose Vision
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
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
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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Boil Country Difference Down Happiness Hope Impact Issue Perhaps Pursuit Represented
Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Allow Heroically Live Meaningful Rise Triumphant
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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Avoid Empower Error Foundation Individual Past
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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Art Century Eliminate Hope Petry Unlikely War
And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Depth Happen Know Peak Soul True
All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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Evidence Found Ghost Looking Love Simple Simply Statement World
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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Age Brutal Humanity Political Unforgiving War
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Absurdity Campus Meaningful Self Speculated Theory Way
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Activist Appear Art Concept Elevated Humanity Implementation Leader Obama President
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Cissy Cousin Dionne Warwick Diva Gospel Houston Legendary Mother Pop Queen Singing
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Amazingly Armor Beneath Bone Color Mind Skin
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Distorting Early Historic Invested Mandelas Moment Nature Opponent Resource True
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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Color Death Dream Motivational Reinvigorated Serve Substance
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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Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Country Fact Government House State Symbolism White
The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Die Light Miracle never Reflection Rhythm Step
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Book Communion Fellow Human Being Meditation Prayer Represent Shared Spiritual
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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Art Beauty Freely Giving Possess Recognize Soul Surrender
First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Almost Dismiss Greater Pray Sense Themselves
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence

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