Aberjhani Quotes

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Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

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

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

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The reality of buried truths raised suddenly into light is like a scalpel driven solely by an intent to slash, irregardless of whether or not a healing follows. And within the dim corridors of such an observation dwells many dangers indeed; chief among them perhaps, the horror of a man glimpsing his image in a shard of truth's mirror and discovering he is––or at least that some fundamental segment of him remains––as yet, a lost and broken little boy.

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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

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Stars ink your fingers
with a lexicon of flame
blazing rare knowledge.

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

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Completing the story of slavery meant acknowledging the many black abolitionists who advocated for the freedom of slaves. It further meant recognition of the thousands of African Americans who fought to free themselves during the Civil War as opposed to waiting for emancipation.

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You are the man newly arriving
at history's worm-ravaged door,
the woman whose shadows are salves
upon the bleeding breasts of the earth,
the infant whose heartbeat
floods every harp in Paradise.

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Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibilities in which I saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

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The image titled The Homeless, Psalm 85:10, featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include the spiritual in the form of a studied meditation upon the multidimensional qualities of the painting itself; or an extended contemplation of the scripture in the title, which in the King James Bible reads as follows: Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects; namely, the very serious plight of those who truly are homeless in this world, whether born into such a condition, or forced into it by poverty or war.

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

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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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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. 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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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

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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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Certainly with the enslavement of their parents and grandparents less than seventy years behind them, the odds of successfully utilizing black culture to better refine the application of democracy in America was against them. Yet the planners and participants in this would-be renaissance moved forward with all the faith and visionary certainty of Betsy Ross stitching the American flag or General William T. Sherman blazing a trail of victory through the Civil War South.

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

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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organization, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.

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

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