{"quotes":[{"text":"There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","angel-art","anti-racism","beauty","beauty-in-nature","believing-in-love","brexit","choosing-love-over-fear","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","color","community","compassion","compassion-saves-lives","courage-to-love","cross-culturalism","cultural-literacy","demographic-shifts","demographics","diversity","election-year-politics","european-union","grace","hate-crimes","hatred","hope-for-humanity","immigration","jealousy","love-for-humanity","millennial-generation","millennials","mindfulness","multiculturalismo","multiculturalità","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-love","practicing-peace","race-and-racism","rainbow","rainbows","regrexit","spirit-of-cooperation","spiritual-philosophy","spirituality","sustainable-humanity","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","we-are-charleston","we-are-humanity","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","wisdom","xenophobia"],"id":36340,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"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.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["black-skylark","dream-vision","earth","fantasy-novels","fiction-character-danny-blue","flickering-stars","flying","harmony","meditation","metaphysical-book","metaphysical-fiction","metaphysical-poets","moon","music","music-of-the-spheres","mysticism","mythopoeic-ficiton","nebulae","novels-by-aberjhani","paranormal-characters","paranormal-urban-fantasy-romance","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","sighs","speculative-fiction","stars","supernatural-mystery","visionary-metaphysics","zped-music-player"],"id":40199,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["african-american-history","african-american-intellectuals","african-american-leaders","best-leadership-practices","black-culture","black-history-month","black-leaders","civil-disobedience","democracy-in-america","education","faith-in-the-american-people","followers","followership","harlem-renaissance","harlem-renaissance-historians","heroes-of-the-harlem-renaissance","historical-accountability","historicization","history-of-democracy","leaders","leadership","leadership-strategies","leadership-styles","national-history-day","patriotism","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","race-relations-in-america","teaching-the-harlem-renaissance","united-states-of-america","vindication","web-du-bois"],"id":40530,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["beauty","compassion-heals-lives","finding-meaning","flavors","human-beings","human-nature","hunger","meaningfulness","multidimensional-awareness","multidimensionality","national-poetry-month","passion","physical-body","poetic-considerations","poetics","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","self-realization","world-poetry-day","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":80736,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["advocate-for-compassion","advocating-for-compassion","belife-in-humanith","coexistence","confronting-change","contemporary-poetry","courage","creative-arts","cultural-arts","diversity-in-literature","diversity-in-publishing","humility","inspiration","inspiring","leaderhsip","leadership-strategies","literature","love-for-humanity","mlk-day","motivation","national-poetry-month","nonviolence-jihadism","npm17","poets-for-change","positive-motivation","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-compassion","practicing-peace","self-empowerment","sorrow","speaking-truth-to-power","strategic-leadership","wisdom","world-poetry-day","writing-poetry"],"id":159396,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["american-rainbow-eagle","bigotry","charleston-masacre","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","common-ground","compassion","cultural-literacy","diversity","end-jihad-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","give-peace-a-chance","gun-laws","gun-violence","hate-crimes","homegrown-terrorism","homophobia","humanity","intolerance","jihadism-and-love","learning-to-love","lessons-of-the-year-2016","mass-shootings","mental-health","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","orlando-florida-shooting","orlando-massacre","poster-art","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","remembering-sandy-hook","sanity-insanity","self-hatred","spirituality","teaching-diversity","teaching-muliticulturalism","terrorism","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","what-matters-is-love","xenophobia"],"id":264953,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"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.","author":"Aberjhani","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","women-s-history-month","writing-history"],"id":275984,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. 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