In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
ABERJHANIDr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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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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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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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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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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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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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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