Aberjhani Quotes

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"Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal."

--- Aberjhani

#Passion #Achieve #Discipline

"As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps, operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we've forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love."

--- Aberjhani

#People #Love #Life

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

--- Aberjhani

#Rebirth #Soul #Made

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Known #World #Poet

"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."

--- Aberjhani

#Rebirth #Inner Peace #Born

"At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge."

--- Aberjhani

#Knowledge #Evolve #Powerful

"Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another."

--- Aberjhani

#Attitude #Soul #Faces

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Ignorance #Sensibility #Emotion

"Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on."

--- Aberjhani

#Shining #Humans #Destiny

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

--- Aberjhani

#Love You #Intimacy #Millions

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Silence #Insidious #Difficult

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Civil Rights Act #Civil Rights Act Of 1964 #Foundation

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Promise #War #World

"Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life."

--- Aberjhani

#Rainbow #Positive Attitude #Beautiful

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

--- Aberjhani

#Circumstances #Spiritual Truth #Meditating

"With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts. It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books, delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor."

--- Aberjhani

#Book #Speech #Politician

"When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future."

--- Aberjhani

#Book #Made #Shapes

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Love #Life #Balance

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

--- Aberjhani

#Love #Sunlight #Trembling

"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight."

--- Aberjhani

#Poet #Dawn #Midnight

"Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World"

--- Aberjhani

#Music #World

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#People #Claims #Clouds

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Differences #Issues #America

"Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease."

--- Aberjhani

#Peace #Afghanistan #Social

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Victory #Foundation #Lays

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#Emancipation #Commit #Democracy

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

--- Aberjhani

#Rebirth #Found #Love Passion

"What hell condemned, let heaven now heal."

--- Aberjhani

#Heal #Hell #Heaven

"While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace."

--- Aberjhani

#People #Abuse #War

"Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established."

--- Aberjhani

#Justice #Done #Building

"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."

--- Aberjhani

#May #Flower #Sorrow

"Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series"

--- Aberjhani

#Fame #African American #Art

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