Aberjhani Quotes

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.

~ Aberjhani

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

~ Aberjhani

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

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

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.

~ Aberjhani

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ Aberjhani

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.

~ 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.

~ Aberjhani