What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
ABERJHANIThe reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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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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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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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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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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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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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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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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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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