First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
ABERJHANIErotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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The 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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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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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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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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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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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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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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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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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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