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.
ABERJHANIThe more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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It 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.
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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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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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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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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
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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