Photo by Birte Thorsen

What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?

--Countee Cullen (1903–1946) My Soul’s High Song 

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Photo by Birte Thorsen

 "It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you—try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself!" -- Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation (1949).

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Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of exiles.
--Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), U.S. poet. 

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