President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
ABERJHANITrayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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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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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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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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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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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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