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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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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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Continue History Inglorious Likely Long Man Record
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Act Address Civil Foundation Right Voting
And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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Ego Mistake Operation Scheme Transform
Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Angel Bearing Bouquet Love Moonbeam Sunlight Trembling Whisper
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Charity Hand Love Million Plenty Starved
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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Bridge Construction Dream Leading Path Purpose Silver Wing
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell
Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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Applicable Extraordinary Made Possibility Present Shape Vision
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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Angel Cool Country Eagle Sitizenm Weeping Wing
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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Decontextualization Guerrilla Healing Life Love Major Meaning Michael Jackson
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Gift Indicate Strength Weakness
What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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Careful Debilitation Disorder Mental Revealed Studies Suffered Time
And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Die Light Miracle never Reflection Rhythm Step
The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Celebrate Guerrilla Historic Million Moment Tragical
As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Emerge Example Individual Living Peace Unraveling
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Art Century Eliminate Hope Petry Unlikely War
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Angel Blossomed Hope Humanity Joy Love
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Book Cloud Hand Page Pearl Snow Winter
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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Cissy Cousin Dionne Warwick Diva Gospel Houston Legendary Mother Pop Queen Singing
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Life Love Struggle
We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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Celebrate Describe Figure Harlem Heroic Lessor Renaissance Year
Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
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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Art Beauty Freely Giving Possess Recognize Soul Surrender
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
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
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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Attraction Classic Emotional Heightened Individual Love Romantic

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