Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
ABERJHANITo heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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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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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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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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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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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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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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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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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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