She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
ABERJHANIThe Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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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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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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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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