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“We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.”

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Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
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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 beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.”

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Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.”

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Book:Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
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“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It appeared ignorance had indeed managed to secure an alliance with power (to paraphrase James Baldwin’s famous quote) to become the most ferocious enemy of justice on the contemporary historical landscape.”

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Book:Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem
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“Of particular universal significance, is art’s ability to encase hope within contexts that cannot be murdered with bullets, killer drones, or unjust authoritarian decrees. While the blossoms of its extraordinary gifts may wilt in one challenging season, it is their nature to return more numerous and vibrant than ever before in another.”

InspirationDemocracyResilienceFreedom Of ExpressionCultural DiversityCultural ArtsLiterary ActivismNational Arts In Education WeekResisting Authoritarianism
Book:Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem
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