I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
ABERJHANIThe words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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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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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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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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