With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
ABERJHANIThe 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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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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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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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 same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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