To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
ABERJHANIComplications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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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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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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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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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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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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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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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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