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.
ABERJHANIThe music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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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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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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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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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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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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