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 best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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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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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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