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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Gift Indicate Strength Weakness
Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Depth Endowing Gift Inherited Lyric Skillful Whitney Houston
Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Genius Madness Mixture Trait Twin
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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Artistic Defined Literary Musical Period
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
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Christmas Felt Healing Heart Shine Started Time
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Attend Grace Hope Mercy Silence Sister Wound
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
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
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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Art Beauty Freely Giving Possess Recognize Soul Surrender
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Allow Heroically Live Meaningful Rise Triumphant
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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Intention Philosophical Seductive
The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Celebrate Guerrilla Historic Million Moment Tragical

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