Aberjhani

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”

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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

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

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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them…

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“If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace…

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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…

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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s…

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“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.”

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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an…

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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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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of…

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Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with…

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“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be…

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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…

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“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree…

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“The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of…

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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was…

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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to…

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“When all the lights fold back into their silence, in a place secret and safe, warm and fragrant like stars, you will…

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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

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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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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered…

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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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“In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our…

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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense…

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What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

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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…

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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

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

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of…

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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past…

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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance…

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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon…

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