It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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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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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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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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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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