The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
ABERJHANIWhen reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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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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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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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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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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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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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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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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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Nelson 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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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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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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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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