From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
ABERJHANIWhat can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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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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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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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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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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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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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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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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