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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

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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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Accustomed Attempt Misunderstood News Often Practise
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
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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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White
In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Emotion Idea Ignorance Image Knowledge Smell Sound
Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Emerge Example Individual Living Peace Unraveling
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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Motivational Moving Forward Nation Progress Step Taken
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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Conclusion Embrace Hope Humanity Post Successful
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
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Clamor Debate Loose Man Political Self Thunderous War
If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Birthday Cake Cognac Icing Kindness Life Smeared
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Act Construction Mirror Promise Reality Word Writing
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
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
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Activist Appear Art Concept Elevated Humanity Implementation Leader Obama President
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety

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