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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Genius Madness Mixture Trait Twin
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Dance First Mind Music New Ninth Resurrect Slow Soul
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Construction Context Election Participate Politic Voting
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
And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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Being Compose Creature Human Poetic Self
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
They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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Believe Belive Grace Heart Human Inspire Poetry Possibilities Possible Rumi
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
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
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
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Human Love Soul Strong Unconditional Valentine
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
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Dancing Halos Metaphor Sacred Tempo Vortex
The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Continue History Inglorious Likely Long Man Record
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
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
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
Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Groping Military Oppression Political Suffocating Through
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Art Nourish Poetry Soul Substance Truth Wisdom
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Consciously Cultivation Integrity Meditation Negative Spiritual Truth
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Asleep Babe Dream Embracing Light Lips Prayer Saw Syllables

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