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    We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote
    “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, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

  • #2
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #4
    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #6
    On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and
    “On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”
    Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Aberjhani
    “We have the option to either empower our existence with love, purpose, and beauty, or allow ourselves to become slaves to ignorance and agony.”
    Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

  • #9
    Aberjhani
    “The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It appeared ignorance had indeed managed to secure an alliance with power (to paraphrase James Baldwin’s famous quote) to become the most ferocious enemy of justice on the contemporary historical landscape.”
    Aberjhani, Songbirds and Roses: The Unusual Life Story of an Unusual Poem



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