Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
ABERJHANIQuote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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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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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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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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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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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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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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