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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.

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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
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
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Angel Crown Grace Naked Sorrow Surrender Unwinged
A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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Change Essence Life Symbol Ultimate Unceasingly
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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Art Beauty Freely Giving Possess Recognize Soul Surrender
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Compassion Crown Soul Trust Victory
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Beautiful Grief Introduce Pain Rainbow Reflection
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
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Change Demonstrated Humanity May Quickly Slowly
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
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Heaven Humming Mouth Reborn Third Time
The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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Again Commit Emancipation Freedom Life Mistake Proclamation Remind
Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Confront Discover Empower Themselves Worst

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