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.
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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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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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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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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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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