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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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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
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
The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Cross Endure Heavier More Sincere Soul Strength
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Angel Crown Grace Naked Sorrow Surrender Unwinged
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
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Country Measured Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Political Social Spiritual Unique
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Inspirational Mirror Reflecting Spiritual Star Truth
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
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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Appropriate Black Goran Hugo Maturity Mixtape Olsson.Film Past Rich White
Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World
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
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
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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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Balance Deeper Greater Ignore More Potential
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
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Burns Cool Face Fear Lighting Passion Peace
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Excercise Live Reality Strength Sufficient
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
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
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

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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