Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
ABERJHANIWriting 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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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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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Dare to love yourself
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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