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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

Aberjhani

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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Bridge Construction Dream Leading Path Purpose Silver Wing
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Absurdity Campus Meaningful Self Speculated Theory Way
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
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Beautiful Grief Introduce Pain Rainbow Reflection
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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Bright Broken Heart Inside Moon Power Restore
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Finger Flame Ink Knowledge Lexicon Star
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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Computer Genre Intelligence Literary Mind Technique Template
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Born Dignity Fire Flesh Heaven Names Taught
Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Fail Friendship Humanity Intelligence
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
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
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Joy Lovely Pain School Temple
They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Blur Call Established Norm Reality Tendency
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Act Anything Grace Hear Love

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

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