Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
Aberjhani
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Aberjhani
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: July 8
Blogger
Columnist
Historian
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Photographer
Savannah
Georgia
Jeffery Jerome Lloyd
Heaven
Heart
Illuminated
Lands
Bombs
Golden
Sacred
Fields
Land
More quotes by 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
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
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.
Aberjhani
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
Aberjhani
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
Aberjhani
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
Aberjhani
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
Aberjhani
War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
Aberjhani
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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
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.
Aberjhani
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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 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
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
Aberjhani
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
Aberjhani
