And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
ABERJHANIHorror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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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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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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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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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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