His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
ABERJHANIWithin the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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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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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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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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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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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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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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