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.
ABERJHANIAs a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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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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