President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
ABERJHANIBeauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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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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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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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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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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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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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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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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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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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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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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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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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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