Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
ABERJHANIHope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
ABERJHANIMost people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
ABERJHANIAnd therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
ABERJHANIOn faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
ABERJHANIFeet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
ABERJHANIJust 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.
ABERJHANIMovies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
ABERJHANIWe rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
ABERJHANIIf life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
ABERJHANIThe best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
ABERJHANIThe 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.
ABERJHANITo what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
ABERJHANIIn ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
ABERJHANIThe Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
ABERJHANITo create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
ABERJHANIPresident Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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