An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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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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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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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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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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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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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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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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It 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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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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