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American-born author Aberjhani (born July 8, 1957, in Savannah, Georgia) is a historian, columnist, novelist, poet, and editor. Although well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, he is perhaps best known as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of The River of Winged Dreams. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004.

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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.

Beauty, Eye, Flower, Garden, Open, Rich

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

Memorized, Peace, Sky, Tore, War, World

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.

Ability, Dream, Kings, Military, Shadows, Shine

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

Dawn, Garden, Light, Poet, Verb

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

Fate, Humanity, Saves, Sooner, Voting

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.

African American, Art, Association, Names, Poets, World

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.

Blood, Gestation, Longer, Prayer, Volunteer, Years

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.

Brown, Buddhist, Christian, Lines, Love

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.

Dancing, Halos, Labor, Sacred, Vortex

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.

Allowing, Children, Despair, Dream, Exercising, Spiritual

Happy World Poetry Day: '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.

Voice, Identity, World, American, Poetry, Poets

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.

Art, Drama, Hope, Reality, Remain, Willing

With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts. It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books, delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.

Art, Book, Warrior, Coalitions, Say, Persuasion

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

Applicable, Dynamic, Evolve, Evolves, Knowledge, Powerful

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

Appears, Art, Elevated, Humanity, Leader, President

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.

Beauty, Passion, Self, Subdued, Hunger

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

Dream, Feet, Leading, Sandaled, Vision, Wisdoms

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

Art, Soul, Substance, Truth, Wisdom

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Assumption, Black, Individual, Nation, Representation, Set

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

Achieves, Determination, Discipline, Goal, Passion

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