Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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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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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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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Peace 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
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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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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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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