Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
ABERJHANIHorror 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
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
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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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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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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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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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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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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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