To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
ABERJHANIWith my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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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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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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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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