The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
ABERJHANIIn 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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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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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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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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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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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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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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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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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