By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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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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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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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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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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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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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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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Dare to love yourself
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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