Words will inspire and words will also provoke with the power to create and the ability to destroy; to give life to something or to cancel out its very existence. Maya Angelou speaks in shades of wisdom and people listen because her choice of words and her arrangement of thought invite the consideration of what could be. The Dixie Chicks spoke up and earned the right to challenge a lost world to ask the questions and express the concerns; to pick words responsibly and with full acceptance of the consequences unforeseen.
Allowing others to hear the words that we have yet to say, the words that long to linger in our collective consciousness, graciously responds to that horizon that so generously offers itself up as the space for change, with the hope of a better day.
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