Bright Skylark Literary Productions
  • Author Statement
    • Blog: Visionary Vibes >
      • Twitter Tweets & News Notes >
        • Author-Poet Aberjhani in the News
      • Blog: Cultural Arts Reviews and Remembrances
      • Blog: Sonic Delight Music Reviews >
        • Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson: Editorial with Poem
      • Shifting Points of View and the Massacre in Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
      • 7 Ways to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion
    • Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind >
      • Tribute to Savannah Author Robert T.S. Mickles Sr.
    • Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah >
      • Podcast Prospects 504
      • More Books by Aberjhani >
        • Readers & Reviewers on the Writings of Aberjhani
        • Checking in at Goodreads
        • Editing Credits
        • ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love (Art and Poetry Gift Book)
        • The River of Winged Dreams
        • The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
        • Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player: A Novel by Aberjhani
        • I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
        • Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
        • Buy Books by Aberjhani on Amazon
        • 10th Anniversary of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Art and Poster Store
    • Blog: Silk-Featherbrush Art and Style
    • Postered Poetics
    • Your Introduction to Original Silk-Featherbrush Art & Style
  • Choose a Cultural Arts Heritage Project to Support
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    • Aberjhani - Author Biography
    • Awards & Honors
    • Aberjhani Portfolio Sampler
    • Michael Jackson in Life & Legend
    • Creative Thinkers International
  • About Bright Skylark Literary Productions
    • Bright Skylark Values and Motto
  • Famous Quotes of Note
    • Pinterest Page of Quotations
  • Charter for a More Compassionate World
  • As a Poet Thinketh
    • The Bridge of Silver Wings
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao by Aberjhani
    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
  • Articles and Essays
    • Abbreviated Minds in the News for Wreaking Havoc Worldwide editorial by Aberjhani
    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
    • Realms of Emerging Light (Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts Part 2)
    • Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama's Re-Election: Editorial and Poem
    • Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election
    • 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreamers and Nightmares
    • Considering Michael Clarke Duncan: Big Black Man Within A Nonsociopoliticohistorical Context (Editorial with Poem)
  • Video Pen & Ink
  • Links and Connections
    • Aberjhani's Guerrilla Decontextualization
  • Contact the Author
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Quotations from the corpus of poems, articles, essays, and books by Aberjhani.

'Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.' Aberjhani pic.twitter.com/UrB4vjESKY

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 3, 2017

​For a lot of micro-bloggers, quotations have become the content of choice and many by Aberjhani can be found on such sites as, Delicious, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and elsewhere. Included on this page of are some of the more popular quotes by the author as well as some which may be less well known.  Many of them are particularly useful for acknowledging such public occasions as National History Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, National Poetry Month, United Nations designated observances, humanitarian causes, and various cultural arts events. Individuals or organizations wishing to utilize quotes for commercial purposes should first obtain permission and discuss arrangements with the author or an acting representative to avoid copyright infringements. 

Creative Industry

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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.”
--from All That National Poetry Month
Jazz

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“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one’s beloved extended community.” Quote and Postered Poetics art 2015 © by Aberjhani

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

Let us all move forward in our own lives with hope and as a country to resurrect our dreams.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) May 23, 2021
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Postered Poetics Quotation Art: “That’s how we ebony skylarks are— singing dreamers up out of their sleep and dancing the dead away from their graves.” ––Aberjhani (from Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black & Bonus Story Tracks)
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“…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, from The River of Winged Dreams

We will heal with unconditional love those souls whose hearts have been disfigured by hatred and loneliness.

― Aberjhani#AntiRacism #SocialEquality pic.twitter.com/J6dt2J3kKT

— Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature, & Leadership (@BooksBhindBars) May 22, 2021
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"Making the choice to exercise compassion..." Postered Poetics quotation art by 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, American poet and historian pic.twitter.com/u5QRS4bxzl

— Our Black Party (@OurBlackParty) April 29, 2021
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Image collage by Facebook profile “Michael Jackson in My Heart and Soul” featuring classic photos of Jackson with photograph of Aberjhani by John Zeuli. The quote on the montage is an Italian translation of the original English, which reads: ““The beautiful thing about true genius, such as that which Michael Jackson possessed, is that it can inhabit and express its truth in meaningful ways through many forms.” (From the article “Michael Jackson and Summertime from This Point on,” and featured on the @OfficialMJTP website). Bottom right side image is from the “We Are the World” video project. https://www.facebook.com/MichaelJacksoninmyheartandinmysoul/photos/a.232541656931196.1073741840.229933520525343/775761069275916/?type=3&theater

The Light & The Secret

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“Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.” Postered Poetics by Aberjhani

Hearts broken in #Brussels, Istanbul, Ankara... finding #Inspiration in US poet/author @Aberjhani #prayforturkey pic.twitter.com/qmVEdZ5dTV

— Eu2Be Skin Care (@Eu2Be) March 22, 2016
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Quotation: “The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.”- Aberjhani (Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player, Postered Poetics)
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“You were born a child of Light’s wonderful secret...you return to the beauty you have always been.” ~ Aberjhani (from Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black) Art graphic by Mynzah

"You were born a child of Light's wonderful secret; you return to the beauty you have always been" - Aberjhani pic.twitter.com/cpJYtDboY7

— Althea Center (@AltheaCenter) May 4, 2015

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity - Aberjhani #ForeverALDUBNATION pic.twitter.com/OBxBqMTJwb

— Pransisko Balagtaz (@PransBalagtaz) December 6, 2015

{cross over} A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare... pic.twitter.com/B5QcXjLWWQ

— gg bellefleur (@ggbellefleur) August 14, 2014
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"Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters." --Aberjhani, from The River of Winged Dreams

“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.” ~Aberjhani pic.twitter.com/pItkinXobQ

— Reach Out Worldwide (@ReachOutWW) September 4, 2013

LOVE'S DIVINE PRIORITIES


“Just as preparation for war is the greatest guarantee of war,so is failure to respect love’s divine priorities an invitation to catastrophic sorrows of unspeakable magnitudes.”
            -- from the poem Nuclear Snow in Japanese Springtime



                         DARE
“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
    --Aberjhani, from poem
The Angel of Healing: for the Living, the Dying, and the Praying published in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

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CELEBRATE WORLD POETRY DAY "Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry." --Aberjhani
PAIN & JOY
"Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple."
--from The River of Winged Dreams


“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.” ― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

— Tonya Pinkins (@tonyapinkins) February 14, 2013

"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."-- Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

— Hill Harper (@hillharper) February 18, 2013

"Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside of you." Aberjhani pic.twitter.com/h3tA3yUfHi

— Erika Beebe (@cloudninegirl1) February 27, 2014

BRIGHT INSIDE YOU

"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."

--from novel Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World




A MYSTICAL ROSE

“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, from poem Coffee Morning Rhapsody


Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. ~ Aberjhani, pic.twitter.com/EZgwmfBAjb ~ @Globe_Pics

— Pinar Akal (@PinarAkal1) January 7, 2014

This spectacular solar eclipse shot in Mexico from 1,000,000 Pictures reminds me of an Aberjhani quote...1/2 twitter.com/TartanFrog13/s…

— Dina Desveaux (@TartanFrog13) February 19, 2013
TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE, IS THAT A QUESTION???
"The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come, is to determine which hearts, minds, and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear."
  --from essay Obama, the Tea Party, and the Art of Political Persuasions


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"Songbirds of the grave arise to the pulse and glow of a new lyric." --from the video ANGEL OF VALENTINE DAYS & NIGHTS by Aberjhani
MIRRORS AND TRUTH
“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”
   -- from poem Magnetic Black Towards Light 



ON THE OTHER SIDE

“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.” 
--from poem Gratitudes of a Dozen Roses

MY SOUL MADE NEW
"With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new." 
   --from poem DarkMagusMilesAhead #7


READERS & WRITERS
"The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large."
--from Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black


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"Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope." --from the video ANGEL OF BETTER DAYS TO COME by Aberjhani
  • Author Statement
    • Blog: Visionary Vibes >
      • Twitter Tweets & News Notes >
        • Author-Poet Aberjhani in the News
      • Blog: Cultural Arts Reviews and Remembrances
      • Blog: Sonic Delight Music Reviews >
        • Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson: Editorial with Poem
      • Shifting Points of View and the Massacre in Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
      • 7 Ways to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion
    • Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind >
      • Tribute to Savannah Author Robert T.S. Mickles Sr.
    • Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah >
      • Podcast Prospects 504
      • More Books by Aberjhani >
        • Readers & Reviewers on the Writings of Aberjhani
        • Checking in at Goodreads
        • Editing Credits
        • ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love (Art and Poetry Gift Book)
        • The River of Winged Dreams
        • The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
        • Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player: A Novel by Aberjhani
        • I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
        • Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
        • Buy Books by Aberjhani on Amazon
        • 10th Anniversary of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Art and Poster Store
    • Blog: Silk-Featherbrush Art and Style
    • Postered Poetics
    • Your Introduction to Original Silk-Featherbrush Art & Style
  • Choose a Cultural Arts Heritage Project to Support
  • Working Scribe Image Carousel
    • Aberjhani - Author Biography
    • Awards & Honors
    • Aberjhani Portfolio Sampler
    • Michael Jackson in Life & Legend
    • Creative Thinkers International
  • About Bright Skylark Literary Productions
    • Bright Skylark Values and Motto
  • Famous Quotes of Note
    • Pinterest Page of Quotations
  • Charter for a More Compassionate World
  • As a Poet Thinketh
    • The Bridge of Silver Wings
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao by Aberjhani
    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
  • Articles and Essays
    • Abbreviated Minds in the News for Wreaking Havoc Worldwide editorial by Aberjhani
    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
    • Realms of Emerging Light (Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts Part 2)
    • Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama's Re-Election: Editorial and Poem
    • Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election
    • 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreamers and Nightmares
    • Considering Michael Clarke Duncan: Big Black Man Within A Nonsociopoliticohistorical Context (Editorial with Poem)
  • Video Pen & Ink
  • Links and Connections
    • Aberjhani's Guerrilla Decontextualization
  • Contact the Author
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