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
ABERJHANIThe word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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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
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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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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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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