Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
ABERJHANIFrom 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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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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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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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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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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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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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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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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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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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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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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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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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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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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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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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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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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