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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Measured Nelson People Profound Question Unique
When 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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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
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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Boil Country Difference Down Happiness Hope Impact Issue Perhaps Pursuit Represented
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
Dare to love yourself
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Dare Love You Self Esteem Yourself
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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Color Death Dream Motivational Reinvigorated Serve Substance
Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Agape Anguish Back Different Holding World
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Fear Fearlessly Know Quietly Yourself
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
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Gift Indicate Strength Weakness
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Inspirational Mirror Reflecting Spiritual Star Truth
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

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