A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
ABERJHANILove, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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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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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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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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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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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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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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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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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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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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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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Dare to love yourself
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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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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 the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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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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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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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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