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

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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Cross Endure Heavier More Sincere Soul Strength
It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Beautiful Courage Sincerity Spitfire Uncommon
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Calligraphy Eye Ignorance Painted Star Terror
His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Ben Okri Century Destiny Fighting Grief Pose Question Serious Work
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Burns Cool Face Fear Lighting Passion Peace
Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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Applicable Extraordinary Made Possibility Present Shape Vision
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
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Billion Communication Era Living People War
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
That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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Compendium Condensed Encounter Journey Power Rainbow Represent Unavoidable
They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Blur Call Established Norm Reality Tendency
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
The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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Air Announce Brooding Light Music Reader Revelation Somber Tone
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

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