Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
ABERJHANIMany people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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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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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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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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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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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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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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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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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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