President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
ABERJHANINation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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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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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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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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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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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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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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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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