The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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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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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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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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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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