In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
ABERJHANIAs life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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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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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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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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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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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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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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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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