Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
ABERJHANIAnd to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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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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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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