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.
ABERJHANIWhen the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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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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