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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Intimacy Love Million Relationship Resurrect Second You
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Absurdity Campus Meaningful Self Speculated Theory Way
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
In 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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Citizen Country Dream King Martin Luther King Military Plea Searing Soul
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
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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Consciously Cultivation Integrity Meditation Negative Spiritual Truth
Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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Argue Country Experience Freedom Hampering Happiness Pursuit State
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Angel Crown Grace Naked Sorrow Surrender Unwinged
Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Compassion Empathy Ethical Love Possession Tool Trust
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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Art Artist Culture Depth Lend Literary Verbal
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Country Measured Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Political Social Spiritual Unique
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
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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Commercialism Day Era Holiday Influenced Modern Valentine
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Condem Fate Humanity Later Often Save Sooner Voting
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Disease Earthquake Peace Sky Smoldering War
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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Motivational Moving Forward Nation Progress Step Taken
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
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
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
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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Component Existence Life Pain People Time World
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Applause Brain Earn Feat Man Monkey Rooftop Sitting
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison

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