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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Assumption Black Decontecttualization Guerrilla Individual Mainstream Man Media Representation
She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Depth Endowing Gift Inherited Lyric Skillful Whitney Houston
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Art Artist Author Country Name Poet World
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith 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
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
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
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Attend Grace Hope Mercy Silence Sister Wound
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
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
It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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Despair Difference Man Paralyze Permanent Woman
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
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
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Charity Hand Love Million Plenty Starved
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Art Nourish Poetry Soul Substance Truth Wisdom

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