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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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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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Country Democracy Faith Phenomenal Political Symbolism Victory
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Claim Cloud People Rightfully
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless
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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Cissy Cousin Dionne Warwick Diva Gospel Houston Legendary Mother Pop Queen Singing
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Ashes Bridge Dead New Year Silver Stretch Unforgiving Wing
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety
As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Emerge Example Individual Living Peace Unraveling
Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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Argue Country Experience Freedom Hampering Happiness Pursuit State
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Blood Day Gushing Night Pain Pam
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Absurdity Campus Meaningful Self Speculated Theory Way
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
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
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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Dream Feet Path Peak Sandaled Shark Tread Vision Wisdom
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Charity Hand Love Million Plenty Starved
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
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

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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