Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
ABERJHANIIn the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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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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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
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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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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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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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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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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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