President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
ABERJHANIWhat more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
More Aberjhani Quotes
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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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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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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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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