And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
ABERJHANIStill willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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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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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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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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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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