Top quotes by Aberjhani

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. Votes: 26

Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores. Votes: 23

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. Votes: 14

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. Votes: 14

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Votes: 13

The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death. Votes: 12

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction. Votes: 12

Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies. Votes: 10

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. Votes: 8

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters. Votes: 7

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen. Votes: 6

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same. Votes: 6

Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asunder.While inside the bleeding smokeand beyond the shredded weeping fleshwe memorized tales of infinite good.--from The History Lesson Votes: 5

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free? Votes: 5

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality. Votes: 5

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable. Votes: 4

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. Votes: 4

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything. Votes: 4

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you."--from Past Present and Future are One" Votes: 4

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all. Votes: 3

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence. Votes: 3

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike. Votes: 3

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings. Votes: 2

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 samePeace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. Votes: 1

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. Votes: 1

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. Votes: 1

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was. Votes: 1

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings." Votes: 1

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal." Votes: 0

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold." Votes: 0

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Votes: 0

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine. Votes: 0

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. Votes: 0

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness. Votes: 0

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies. Votes: 0

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light. Votes: 0

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward. Votes: 0

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. Votes: 0

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. Votes: 0

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century. Votes: 0

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 how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all. Votes: 0

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 dis-ease. Votes: 0

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. Votes: 0

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart. Votes: 0

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you. Votes: 0

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way. Votes: 0

Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings. Votes: 0

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. Votes: 0

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. Votes: 0

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 piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances. Votes: 0

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. Votes: 0

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way. Votes: 0

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends. Votes: 0

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace. Votes: 0

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds. Votes: 0

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. Votes: 0

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. Votes: 0

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew. Votes: 0

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. Votes: 0

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. Votes: 0

With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new. Votes: 0

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails. Votes: 0

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace. Votes: 0

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street Votes: 0

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality Votes: 0

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. Votes: 0

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. Votes: 0

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. Votes: 0

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. Votes: 0

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate. Votes: 0

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. Votes: 0

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too. Votes: 0

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love. Votes: 0

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large. Votes: 0

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate. Votes: 0

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action. Votes: 0

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry. Votes: 0

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies Votes: 0

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. Votes: 0

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. Votes: 0

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor. Votes: 0

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces. Votes: 0

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity. Votes: 0

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader... Votes: 0

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 capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people. Votes: 0

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust. Votes: 0

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow. Votes: 0

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you. Votes: 0

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured. Votes: 0

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. Votes: 0

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life. Votes: 0

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? Votes: 0

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. Votes: 0

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. Votes: 0

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. Votes: 0

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. Votes: 0

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. Votes: 0

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius Votes: 0

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. Votes: 0

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour. Votes: 0

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple. Votes: 0

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. Votes: 0

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. Votes: 0

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. Votes: 0

A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes. Votes: 0

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 Votes: 0

Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. Votes: 0

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. Votes: 0

Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them. Votes: 0

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams... Votes: 0

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. Votes: 0

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds. Votes: 0

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear. Votes: 0

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. Votes: 0

As goes love so goes life. Votes: 0

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions. Votes: 0

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. Votes: 0

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace Votes: 0

In your hands winter... Votes: 0

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly. Votes: 0

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself. Votes: 0

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self. Votes: 0

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves. Votes: 0

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease. Votes: 0

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear. Votes: 0

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands? Votes: 0

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new… Votes: 0

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. Votes: 0

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. Votes: 0

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them. Votes: 0

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. Votes: 0

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty. Votes: 0

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution. Votes: 0

Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action. The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual's imagination. Votes: 0

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count. Votes: 0

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series Votes: 0

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, especially when there is any amount of "doubt" at all regarding his guilt or innocence. Votes: 0

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks. Votes: 0

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh. Votes: 0

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 to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid. Votes: 0

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established. Votes: 0

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights. Votes: 0

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance. Votes: 0

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears. Votes: 0

Dare to love yourself Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. Votes: 0

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit? Votes: 0

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 you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that. Votes: 0

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on. Votes: 0