Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
ABERJHANII was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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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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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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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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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 act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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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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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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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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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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