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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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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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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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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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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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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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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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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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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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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
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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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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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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