Aberjhani Quotes - Page 6

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

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  Strength, Perseverance, Angel

  Luther E. Vann, Aberjhani (2008). “Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love”, p.117, Bright Skylark Book Products

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

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  Powerful, Knowledge, Evolve

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

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  Love, Hands, Charity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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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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  Discipline, Ordinary, Levels

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com

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• 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.

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  Art, Book, Warrior

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• Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

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  Beauty, Heart, Night

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• 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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  Love, Wind, House

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

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  Love, School, Dust

  Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, p.153, Lulu.com

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• 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.

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  Love, War, Exercise

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

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  Love, Simple, World

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• 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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  Love, Spiritual, Taken

  Aberjhani (2008). “Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World”, p.104, Lulu.com

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

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  War, Land, Mind

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• Dare to love yourself

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  Self Esteem, Love You, Dare

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

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  Spiritual, Grief, Creativity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Men, Ideas, Silence

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• The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Men

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• 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.

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  Black, Assumption, Individual

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• 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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  Tears, Complexity, Deeper

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• 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.

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  Dream, Book, Past

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, Lulu.com

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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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  New Year, Bridges, Wings

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• 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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  Heart, Broken, Rose

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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  Different, World, Agape Love

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.62, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

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  Voting, Politics, Election

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• Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

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  Art, African American, Fame

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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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  Hope, Art, War

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.5, Lulu.com

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