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.
ABERJHANIWe can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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Dare to love yourself
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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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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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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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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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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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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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Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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As goes love so goes life.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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The 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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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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