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born 1957 United States

Aberjhani (born July 8, 1957, in Savannah, Georgia) is an African-American historian, poet, journalist, essayist, and fiction writer. His Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most referenced titles on the 1920s to 1940s cultural movement, and his first book, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, is often described as a modern underground classic.

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Also known as: Jeffery J. Lloyd

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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

Evil is mostly confusion seeking to evolve itself into love.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)

Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2008)

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)

Beauty will snatch us by the heart
and love us until we are raw with understanding.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

Silence brings us new names
new feelings and new knowledge.
Dreams dress us carefully
in the colors of power and faith.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)

A horn of plenty
spills from your hands into the
starved lives of millions.

Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.

The River of Winged Dreams (2010)

Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry (2014)

A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003)

The issues revolve around experiences of truth and fairness but also address the practice of having choices forced upon you as opposed to freely making your own based on true-to-the-moment information instead of calculated misinformation.

In the end, it was strength he was reaching for once again to begin his journey anew and do the one thing he did better than anybody else.”

In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)

“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

As goes love so goes life.

The River of Winged Dreams (2010)

Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth somethin --real power!--live an’ grow from the hurt you feed it.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

The shape of something uncaring and
perversely cold stands up inside a man
and he finds himself completely deceived.
This world’s anguish is no different
from the love we insist on holding back.

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)

Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)

You are the man newly arriving
at history’s worm-ravaged door,
the woman whose shadows are salves
upon the bleeding breasts of the earth,
the infant whose heartbeat
floods every harp in Paradise.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aberjhani (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.