The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
ABERJHANIAnd 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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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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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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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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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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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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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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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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And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Dare to love yourself
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