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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at l...more

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a...more

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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the pre...more

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when t...more

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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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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 th...more

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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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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obl...more

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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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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of inj...more

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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.