They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius
ABERJHANIDare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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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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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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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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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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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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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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