Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
ABERJHANIWithout the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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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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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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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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As 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
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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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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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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