Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
ABERJHANIBeauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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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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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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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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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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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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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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