An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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September 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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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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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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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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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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