At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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More Aberjhani Quotes
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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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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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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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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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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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 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
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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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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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