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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissa...more

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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that con...more