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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Fear Fearlessly Know Quietly Yourself
Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Fail Friendship Humanity Intelligence
The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Attend Grace Hope Mercy Silence Sister Wound
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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Conclusion Embrace Hope Humanity Post Successful
Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief
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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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Condem Fate Humanity Later Often Save Sooner Voting
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
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Christmas Felt Healing Heart Shine Started Time
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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Almost Christmas Killed Music World
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Act America Civil Hope Learn Passage Past Right Rule
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
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
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

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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