The 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
ABERJHANIThat 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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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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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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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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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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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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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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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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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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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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