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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

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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
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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Country Fact Government House State Symbolism White
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
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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Again Commit Emancipation Freedom Life Mistake Proclamation Remind
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
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Angel Elation Leave Light Rich Rose Vision
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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Boil Country Difference Down Happiness Hope Impact Issue Perhaps Pursuit Represented
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Beauty Birth Heart Night Rescue Scormed Traumatize Voice
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Asleep Babe Dream Embracing Light Lips Prayer Saw Syllables
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
Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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Billion Communication Era Living People Terrorism
Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Balance Deeper Greater Ignore More Potential
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence
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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Being Creative Helping Human Jazz Poetry Tragedy

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