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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

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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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Commercialism Day Era Holiday Influenced Modern Valentine
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Depth Happen Know Peak Soul True
It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
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
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Charity Hand Love Million Plenty Starved
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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Civilized Constituted Disease Form Pain People Poverty Struggle
Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Compassion Empathy Ethical Love Possession Tool Trust
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Definite Enhance Freedom Harvest Principle Sustain
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
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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Boil Country Difference Down Happiness Hope Impact Issue Perhaps Pursuit Represented
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Dream Humanity King Manifestation Martin Luther King
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Achieve Challenge Determination Discipline Passion Presented
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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Clamor Debate Loose Man Political Self Thunderous War
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.
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Beautiful Clinton D Empowering Love Major Powell Shine
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Beauty Birth Heart Night Rescue Scormed Traumatize Voice
An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Accept Author Dance Idea Ignorance Invitation Language Moving Step
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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Civilization Clock Concrete Foundation Humanity Labor REquired
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Awareness Choice Generation Legacy Next Secure
It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Beautiful Courage Sincerity Spitfire Uncommon
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
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
They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White

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