Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
ABERJHANIWhat they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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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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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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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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