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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Intimacy Love Million Relationship Resurrect Second You
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Beautiful Clinton D Empowering Love Major Powell Shine
First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Almost Dismiss Greater Pray Sense Themselves
If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Birthday Cake Cognac Icing Kindness Life Smeared
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
Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Fail Friendship Humanity Intelligence
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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Allow Destiny Dynamic Extent Indefinable Maintain
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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Motivational Moving Forward Nation Progress Step Taken
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Life Love Struggle
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Agape Anguish Back Different Holding World
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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Act America Civil Hope Learn Passage Past Right Rule
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
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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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
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
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Claim Cloud People Rightfully

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