To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
ABERJHANIThis world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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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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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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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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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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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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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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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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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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