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.
ABERJHANIMost 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their “pursuit of happiness” to outright obliterating it.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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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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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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