The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
ABERJHANIThat good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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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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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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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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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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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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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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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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