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    History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and
    “History, too, has a penchant for giving birth
    to itself over and over again, and those whom it
    appoints agents of change and progress
    do not always accept their destinies willingly.”
    ― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
    tags: acceptance, acceptance-of-oneself-and-others, agents-of-change, birth-and-rebirth, black-history-month, change, change-advocates, contemporary-historians, current-history, destiny, fate, giving-birth, harlem-renaissance, hispanic-history, historian-aberjhani, historians, historicity, historicization, history, history-makers, intellectual-history, leadership, lessons-from-history, life-lessons, living-history, making-history, modern-historians, national-history-day, outstanding-people-in-history, philosophy-of-change, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, reluctant-advocates, will, willpower, wisdom-quotes, women-s-history-month, writing-history
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    Aberjhani
    “The chances of satisfying my renewed appetite for literary exchanges increased once I began to visit the library more frequently and make my way from the hotel to City Lights Bookstore at 261 Columbus Avenue. For all I was learning about the role its founder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, had played in helping to nurture, promote, and sustain the talented souls who made the Beat Movement possible, City Lights became a kind of sacred space for me.”
    ― Aberjhani, Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind
    tags: beat-movement, bookstores, city-lights-bookstore, hotels, lawrence-ferlinghetti, literary-movements, sacred-spaces, san-francisco
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