When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
ABERJHANIBetween men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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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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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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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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