To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
ABERJHANIIt becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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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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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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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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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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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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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,
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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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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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