We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
ABERJHANIWith 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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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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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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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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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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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 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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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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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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They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
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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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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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