The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
ABERJHANIIn the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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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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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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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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