Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
ABERJHANIThis is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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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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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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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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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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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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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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