I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
ABERJHANIOverall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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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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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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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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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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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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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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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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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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