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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own

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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
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
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Applause Brain Earn Feat Man Monkey Rooftop Sitting
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Beautiful Clinton D Empowering Love Major Powell Shine
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
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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Dream Finger Key Minute Naked Typing Upon
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
First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Almost Dismiss Greater Pray Sense Themselves
As goes love so goes life.
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Angel Beautiful Goes Life Love
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
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 to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Confront Discover Empower Themselves Worst
To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Aggravate Heal Injury Nation Opposed Wound
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
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell
In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Certain Death Indicate Kind Need Power
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Beneath Entire Eye Flower Garden Knowledge Moonlit Rich Terrified
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Children Dragonflies Exist Fall Garden Mother Pink Refuse Scorpion Unless
Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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Authentic Children Dream Inspiration Spiritual Transform
His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Ben Okri Century Destiny Fighting Grief Pose Question Serious Work
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
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
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Excercise Live Reality Strength Sufficient
Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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Black Brown Buddhist Christian Jew Man Muslim Red White Women

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