Aberjhani Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if…
• Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
• Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
• 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…
• The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
• 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…
• President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader...
• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
• Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic…
• As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people…
• Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.
• By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders…
• Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
• When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
• Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh and blood life,…
• Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
• 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…

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