Aberjhani Quotes
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
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.
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.
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.
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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.
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.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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.
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mainstream 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.
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.
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.
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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.
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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.