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
ABERJHANIWhile it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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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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Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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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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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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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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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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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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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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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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