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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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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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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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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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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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