From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
ABERJHANISomeone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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As goes love so goes life.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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