The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
ABERJHANISeptember 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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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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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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