His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
ABERJHANIThe books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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