Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
ABERJHANIWe can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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