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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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

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How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asun...more

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Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with m...more

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The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a foss...more

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The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to uni...more

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At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise...more

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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’...more

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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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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their ...more

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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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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive for...more

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There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ lov...more

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Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyo...more