President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
ABERJHANIHappy 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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As goes love so goes life.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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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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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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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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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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