It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
ABERJHANIYour pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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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.
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