History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
ABERJHANIThe word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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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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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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