How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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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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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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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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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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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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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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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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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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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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