When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
ABERJHANIIn its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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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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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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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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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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