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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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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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Life, Freedom, Mistake

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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

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Government, Symbolism, White

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.37, Lulu.com

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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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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

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Art, Mirrors, Looking In The Mirror

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.28, Lulu.com

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

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Patriotic, Justice, Humanity

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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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Art, Leader, Humanity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.35, Lulu.com

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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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Destiny, Impact, Humanity

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

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Fate, Voting, Humanity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.72, Lulu.com

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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

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Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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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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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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Love, Life, Healing

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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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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

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Book, Winter, Clouds

Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.45, 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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

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Writing, Reality, Mirrors

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.4, Lulu.com

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

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Light, Miracle, Steps

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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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Mother, Children, Fall

Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.9, Bright Skylark Book Products

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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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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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'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

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Black And White, Maturity, Past

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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 organizations, 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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Inspirational, Religious, Nature

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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