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.
ABERJHANIWe are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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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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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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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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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 more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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