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.
ABERJHANIWhereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Operating 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.
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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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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