Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
ABERJHANIMainstream 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.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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And 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.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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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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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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