The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
ABERJHANIMichael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
More Aberjhani Quotes
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When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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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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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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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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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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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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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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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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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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