September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
ABERJHANIAs living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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