Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
ABERJHANIWe rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Dare to love yourself
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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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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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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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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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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