Top 100 Aberjhani Quotes
#1. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.
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#2. 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. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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#3. 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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#4. The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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#5. The 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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#6. Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.
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#7. Valentine's 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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#8. 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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#9. Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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#10. Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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#11. A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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#12. In 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; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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#13. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?
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#14. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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#15. Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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#16. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies
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#17. There is in Albert Camus' literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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#18. That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
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#19. How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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#21. Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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#22. Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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#23. When we vote we participate in the construction of a context ...
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#24. 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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#26. What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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#27. Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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#28. Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace
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#29. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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#30. History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.
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#31. True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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#32. At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, 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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#33. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.
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#34. War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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#36. Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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#37. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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#38. Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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#39. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
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#40. Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.
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#41. Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.
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#42. Rainbows introduce us to reflections
of different beautiful possibilities
so we never forget that pain and grief
are not the final options in life.
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#43. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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#44. Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson's life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors with something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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#45. Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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#46. 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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#47. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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#48. At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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#49. Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
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#50. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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#51. Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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#52. I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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#53. Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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#54. Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
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#55. Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
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#56. A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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#57. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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#58. Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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#59. First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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#60. 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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#61. At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact ...
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#62. In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.
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#63. Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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#64. 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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#65. Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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#66. Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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#67. Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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#68. When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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#69. 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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#70. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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#71. Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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#72. The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by 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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#73. A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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#74. 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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#75. Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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#76. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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#77. In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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#78. Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination.
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#79. 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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#80. Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?
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#81. Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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#82. If 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?
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#83. An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively
even if with much dread
in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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#84. Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice
sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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#85. Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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#86. Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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#87. From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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#88. You were born a child of light's wonderful secret - you return to the beauty you have always been.
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#89. 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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#90. Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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#91. Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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#92. We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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#93. What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart's sacred lands?
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#94. This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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#95. In 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.
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#96. Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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#97. 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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#98. Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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#99. Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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#100. Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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