Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
ABERJHANIMost people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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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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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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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.
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Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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