Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
ABERJHANIThe rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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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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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves 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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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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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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