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Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

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

The River of Winged Dreams

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, ...

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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dea...

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The River of Winged Dreams

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this wor...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certai...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their live...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirit...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-c...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings mak...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

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Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

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

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Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

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Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

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Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

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

Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

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Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dis...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

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

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if o...

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The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to hate...

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform ...

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Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivat...

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

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

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

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of other...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

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The River of Winged Dreams

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back ...

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I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

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Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

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

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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that in...

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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a...

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi...

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

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from ...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

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The American Poet Who Went Home Again

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...

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The American Poet Who Went Home Again

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications gener...

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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

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Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Now come the whispersbearing bouquets of moonbeamsand sunlight tremblings.

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

The River of Winged Dreams

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

The River of Winged Dreams

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

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

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilli...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender a...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibili...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

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

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and ...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea ...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that tur...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too...

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I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual le...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a r...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

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Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

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

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addr...

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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, s...

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

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

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Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers bu...

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Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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Aberjhani

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Born: 1957-07-08

Died: N/A

Aberjhani (born July 8, 1957, in Savannah, Georgia) is an African-American historian, poet, journalist, essayist, and fiction writer. His Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most referenced titles on the 1920s to 1940s cultural movement, and his first book, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, is often described as a modern underground classic.More