First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
ABERJHANIAnd now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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 poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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