Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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More Aberjhani Quotes
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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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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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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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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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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