Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
ABERJHANIDare to love yourself
More Aberjhani Quotes
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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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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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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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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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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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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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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