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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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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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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Being Creative Helping Human Jazz Poetry Tragedy
It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Beautiful Courage Sincerity Spitfire Uncommon
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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Act Certain Construction Illuminated Looking Mirror Promise Word
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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Amber Burn Love Mystical Relationship Romantic Voice Waterfall
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
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
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Amazingly Armor Beneath Bone Color Mind Skin
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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Certain Death Indicate Kind Need Power
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
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Beauty Child Children Inspirational Recovery Secret
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
What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Civilized Constituted Disease Form Pain People Poverty Struggle
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Achieve Challenge Determination Discipline Passion Presented
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
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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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief

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