September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
ABERJHANIIt 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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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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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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