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.
ABERJHANIOverall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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The 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
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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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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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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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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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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