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.
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 political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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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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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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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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