His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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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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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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As goes love so goes life.
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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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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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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