Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
ABERJHANIWhen 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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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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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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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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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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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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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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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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