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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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Accustomed Attempt Misunderstood News Often Practise
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Act America Civil Hope Learn Passage Past Right Rule
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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Bomb Heart Heaven Illuminated Land Sacred
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
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
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Finger Flame Ink Knowledge Lexicon Star
And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Arm Buddhist Christian Instinct Love Man Outrageous Women
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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Beauty Dressed Glow Grief Love Strength
Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Bigotry Black Disparities Fuel Recognize Unwarranted White
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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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
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 people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Champion Day Funny Mistake People Slow Valentine
As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
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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Avoid Empower Error Foundation Individual Past
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
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
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Human Love Soul Strong Unconditional Valentine
In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Emotion Idea Ignorance Image Knowledge Smell Sound
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Attraction Classic Emotional Heightened Individual Love Romantic
Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Beginning Explosive Extreme Life Moment Muted Surface
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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Change Essence Life Symbol Ultimate Unceasingly
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
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Billion Communication Era Living People War
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value

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