Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
ABERJHANIIt becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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