I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
ABERJHANIDreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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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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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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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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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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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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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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