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

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.