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

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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by th...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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Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional d...more

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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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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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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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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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The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling...more