The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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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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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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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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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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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.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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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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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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