What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
ABERJHANIHis [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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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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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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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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Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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