110+ Aberjhani Quotes On Marriage, Creative And Insightful

Aberjhani is an award-winning author, poet, and columnist. He is best known for his books The River of Winged Dreams and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. He is also a columnist for the Savannah Tribune and the Huffington Post. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Aberjhani on love, marriage, life.

Top 10 Aberjhani Quotes

1. First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
2. Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
3. If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
4. Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
5. 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.
6. Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
7. 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.
8. You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
9. What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
10. 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.

Aberjhani Short Quotes

• Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
• Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
• Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
• With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
• Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
• In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
• Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
• Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
• At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
• Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Aberjhani Quotes About Love

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? — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. — Aberjhani

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. — Aberjhani

Aberjhani Quotes About Life

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. — Aberjhani

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces. — Aberjhani

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — 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

As goes love so goes life. — Aberjhani

Aberjhani Quotes About Creative

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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

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. — Aberjhani

Aberjhani Quotes About Inspiring

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. — Aberjhani

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

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. — Aberjhani

Aberjhani Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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 — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. — Aberjhani

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters. — Aberjhani

Dare to love yourself — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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

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. — Aberjhani

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series — Aberjhani

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

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. — Aberjhani

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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

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. — Aberjhani

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

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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 — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on. — Aberjhani

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

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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

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

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

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

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty. — Aberjhani

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

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context. — 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

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

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

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. — Aberjhani

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy. — Aberjhani

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — Aberjhani

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. — 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

Life Lessons by Aberjhani

1. Aberjhani's work emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and self-improvement. He encourages readers to use their past experiences to inform their present and future decisions, and to strive to become the best version of themselves.
2. Aberjhani also emphasizes the importance of understanding and respecting different cultures and perspectives. He encourages readers to be open-minded and to embrace diversity.
3. Aberjhani's work also highlights the power of creativity and imagination. He encourages readers to use their imagination to create new possibilities and to explore the world around them.