We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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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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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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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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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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