Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
ABERJHANIHappy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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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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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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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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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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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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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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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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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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