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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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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Being Creative Helping Human Jazz Poetry Tragedy
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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Clamor Debate Loose Man Political Self Thunderous War
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Construction Context Election Participate Politic Voting
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
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Angel Bearing Bouquet Love Moonbeam Sunlight Trembling Whisper
The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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Again Commit Emancipation Freedom Life Mistake Proclamation Remind
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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Change Demonstrated Humanity May Quickly Slowly
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety
Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Amazing Array Faces Life Possess Profound Sad
Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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Almost Christmas Killed Music World
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Balance Force Horror Implement Operating Opportunity
Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Angel Eager Extinguished Flame Kissing Liquid Love

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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