Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
ABERJHANIIn short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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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.
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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Whereas 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.
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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