And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
ABERJHANIThe fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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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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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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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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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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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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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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