Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
ABERJHANIMichael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
ABERJHANIIf 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?
ABERJHANIFrom her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
ABERJHANIMade applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
ABERJHANIFriendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
ABERJHANIUpon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
ABERJHANIHuman beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
ABERJHANIPoetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
ABERJHANIAnd a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
ABERJHANISouls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
ABERJHANIAt the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
ABERJHANIIn 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
ABERJHANIThe 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.
ABERJHANIEmancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
ABERJHANIBy consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
ABERJHANIThe dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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