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Quotes from I Made My Boy Out of Poetry — Aberjhani

born 1957 United States

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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)

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

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

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

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

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)

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)

Entire islands and groves of memory suddenly sprung up and I found myself face to face with a deeper awareness of what I can only describe as numerous versions of my singular self and my solitary destiny, pencil sketches of possibility bitch hoe slut thot saw myself as a clown, a poet, a slave, an orator, a prophet and a beggar and a healer and a warrior.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998)

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