Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
ABERJHANIPresident Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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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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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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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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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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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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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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