I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
ABERJHANIBefore the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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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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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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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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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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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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