And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
ABERJHANIValentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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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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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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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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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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