Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
ABERJHANIAn outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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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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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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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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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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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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