Quotes by Aberjhani

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

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”

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

“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

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

“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”

“Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.”

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

“In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.”

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

“The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”

“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”

“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?”

“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.”

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

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