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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Across Blood Cheer Heart Ignorance Million Ring Warriorspilling
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Book Communion Fellow Human Being Meditation Prayer Represent Shared Spiritual
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
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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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Applause Brain Earn Feat Man Monkey Rooftop Sitting
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Act Address Civil Foundation Right Voting
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
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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Civilization Clock Concrete Foundation Humanity Labor REquired
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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Being Creative Helping Human Jazz Poetry Tragedy
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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Art Beauty Create Herat Own Passion
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Draining Exceeding Exercise Idea Peeple Unconditional War
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
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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Agony Bridge Dance Flower Sorrow Spanning Thron
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Beauty Child Children Inspirational Recovery Secret
Dare to love yourself
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Dare Love You Self Esteem Yourself
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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Change Essence Life Symbol Ultimate Unceasingly
Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Compassion Empathy Ethical Love Possession Tool Trust
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Angel Crown Grace Naked Sorrow Surrender Unwinged
I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Heaven Humming Mouth Reborn Third Time
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Born Dignity Fire Flesh Heaven Names Taught
His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Ben Okri Century Destiny Fighting Grief Pose Question Serious Work
Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Beginning Explosive Extreme Life Moment Muted Surface
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Answer Compassion Empathy Humanity Invariably Scenario
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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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless

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