If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
ABERJHANIIf life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
ABERJHANIAs sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
ABERJHANIExperience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
ABERJHANIWhere she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
ABERJHANIBy 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.
ABERJHANIThis fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
ABERJHANIThe reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
ABERJHANIThey both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
ABERJHANIShe [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
ABERJHANIThe act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
ABERJHANIThe birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
ABERJHANII place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
ABERJHANIDreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
ABERJHANIPeace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
ABERJHANIThe Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
ABERJHANIThe singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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