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
ABERJHANIFirst steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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Dare to love yourself
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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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 bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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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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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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