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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,

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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
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 ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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Believe Belive Grace Heart Human Inspire Poetry Possibilities Possible Rumi
Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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Egoless Humility Rainbow Shine Shining World
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Age Brutal Humanity Unforgiving War
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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Dancing Halos Metaphor Sacred Tempo Vortex
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Art Nourish Poetry Soul Substance Truth Wisdom
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
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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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence
Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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Decontextualization Guerrilla Healing Life Love Major Meaning Michael Jackson
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Conscious Elevated Peace Political State Volunteer
The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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Country Day Determine Facing Freedom Job Mind Vote
Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Act Anything Grace Hear Love
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Amber Burn Love Mystical Relationship Romantic Voice Waterfall

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