Quotes About Aberjhani

#1. Aberjhani is an award-winning poet who is featured in our first DREAM REACHERS book. An awesome talent.

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#2. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

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#3. 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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#4. With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

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#5. Upon 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 ...

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#6. This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

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#12. By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

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#13. 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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#14. A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

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#15. Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

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#16. Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. Stars ink your fingers
with a lexicon of flame
blazing rare knowledge.

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

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#28. 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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#29. The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

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#30. If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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 are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.

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#38. 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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#39. The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

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#40. Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

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#41. This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

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#48. Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

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#49. 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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#50. Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

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#51. In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

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#52. Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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#53. In your hands winter ...

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#54. 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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#55. That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

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#56. 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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#57. And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
from The Light, That Never Dies

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#58. The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun's broken heart, power to restore the moon's vision too.

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#65. 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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#66. Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

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#70. 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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#71. The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

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#72. The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute.

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#76. In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

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#77. 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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#78. Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

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#79. Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom's sharp peaks.

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#80. The Emancipation Proclamation ... can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree the definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.

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#81. War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

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#82. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.

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#83. 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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#84. True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

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#85. History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.

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#86. Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

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#87. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

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#88. Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

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#89. Dare to love yourself

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#90. Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

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#91. The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

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#92. What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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#93. As goes love so goes life.

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#94. Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

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#95. As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

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#96. Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new ...

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#97. 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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#98. Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

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#99. When we vote we participate in the construction of a context ...

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#100. 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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