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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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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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Act Address Civil Foundation Right Voting
Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Accustomed Attempt Misunderstood News Often Practise
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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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Bowl Disease Land Mind Poison Tear War
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
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
In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Certain Death Indicate Kind Need Power
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
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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Careful Disorder Fashion Ignorance Knowledge Mental Revealed Studies Time
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
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
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Dream Hate Heart Hope Rebuild Resumed
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
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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Dream Finger Key Minute Naked Typing Upon
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Attraction Classic Emotional Heightened Individual Love Romantic
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

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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