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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Genius Madness Mixture Trait Twin
Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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Civilization Clock Concrete Foundation Humanity Labor REquired
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Amber Burn Love Mystical Relationship Romantic Voice Waterfall
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Dream Humanity King Manifestation Martin Luther King
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Angel Blossomed Hope Humanity Joy Love
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
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Fear Fearlessly Know Quietly Yourself
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
And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
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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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Citizen Country Dream King Martin Luther King Military Plea Searing Soul
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power

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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