To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
ABERJHANIOperating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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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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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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