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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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Agape Anguish Back Different Holding World
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
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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Accommodate Ending Musical Occupy Pathway
True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Blood Dust Genius Prophecy School
And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Book Cloud Hand Page Pearl Snow Winter
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Burns Cool Face Fear Lighting Passion Peace
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Act America Civil Hope Learn Passage Past Right Rule
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Celebrate Describe Figure Harlem Heroic Lessor Past Reading Renaissance Year
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Answer Compassion Empathy Humanity Invariably Scenario
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Believe Difference Flash Heart Reveal Sustained
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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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Beauty Being Compose Creature Human Passion Poetic Self
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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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
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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Bigotry Black Disparities Fuel Recognize Unwarranted White
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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Color Death Dream Motivational Reinvigorated Serve Substance
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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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
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
The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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Billion Communication Era Living People Terrorism
Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Change Demonstrated Humanity May Quickly Slowly
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

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