A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
ABERJHANINelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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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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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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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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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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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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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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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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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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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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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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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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