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.
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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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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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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Dare to love yourself
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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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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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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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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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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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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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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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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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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