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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. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

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Love, Beautiful, Empowering

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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? 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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Grief, Fighting, Destiny

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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

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Love, Angel, Kissing

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.57, Lulu.com

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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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People, Goal, Humanity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.79, Lulu.com

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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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Literary Genre, Intelligence, Mind

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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

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Reading, Past, Years

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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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Men, Blood, Law

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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

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Music, World

Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, Lulu.com

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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, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

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Mother, Cousin, Queens

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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

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Men, Brain, Sitting

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.35, Lulu.com

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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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Dream, Bridges, Wings

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.3, Lulu.com

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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.

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Winning, Wings, Spread

Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.2, Lulu.com

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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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Self, Psychics, Awareness

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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

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Art, Giving, Soul

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.3, Lulu.com

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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

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Philosophical, Seductive, Intention

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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

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Prayer, Light, Gestation Period

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

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Believe, Heart, Grace

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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.

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Love, Life, Pain

"Poetry Life & Times – An Interview With Author-Poet Aberjhani". Interview with Sara L. Russell, Robin Ouzman Hislop, www.artvilla.com. March 18, 2015.

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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. 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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Peace, War, Sky

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.11, Lulu.com

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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: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

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War, Men, Self

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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

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Art, Names, African American

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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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Valentines Day, Holiday, Eras

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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

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Guilty, Trayvon Martin, Has Beens

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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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Past, Rights, America

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