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.
ABERJHANIAnd now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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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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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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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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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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