That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
ABERJHANIPoetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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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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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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As goes love so goes life.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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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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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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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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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.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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