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The Quotable Poet and #Selma50: Passionate Love and Passionate Hope

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Raise your hand if were surprised to see recaps of the #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter social media campaigns popping up on mainstream media last month. Right, that would be basically nobody! And that includes the Quotable Poet because he kept his pen marching in step with the masses with 2 strong pieces. The first was his Selma Revisited series and the second was his story on the new novels by superstar authors Harper Lee and Toni Morrison.

At the same time, a lot of Soldiers of Love, like Senator Cory Booker on Twitter and FamilyShare on Facebook, shared his vibes on Valentine’s Day. For some post-9/11 authors getting tagged for dedications to romance and African-American history at the same time might sound kind’a schizo. When I t comes to QP Aberjhani’s commitment to social justice from his expressions of mystical-love-passion you can’t really separate the two. That’s why we’re giving you 3 for 3 in honor of #Selma50 :

Passionate about Social Justice

“Dreams can not only come true, but they can actually create revolutions in the human heart and provide healing for the human spirit.” –– QP Aberjhani (from A Writer’s Journey to Selma, Alabama)

“There are times when the political circumstances of a given hour define what we recognize as the human condition. The violent racial turmoil and subsequent moral victory of those who stood strong against it in Selma, Alabama, and elsewhere throughout the United States in 1965 was precisely such a time. So are the human rights and broader spectrum of ethical predicaments currently before the world’s polarized populations in 2015.” –– QP Aberjhani (A Writer’s Journey to Selma, Alabama)

Mainstream media black men geurrilla decontextualization quote by Aberjhani with graphic by BrainyQuote“Mainstream media’s representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men’s lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.” QP Aberjhani (from Text & Meaning in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with image from BrainyQuote)

 Passionate about Mystical Love

Love as a concrete foundation quote by Aberjhani image by Top Famous Quotes“Love as a concrete foundation” qoute by Aberjhani with typographic art by Top Famous Quotes “Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.” – QP Aberjhani (from Journey through the Power of the Rainbow, typographic art from Topfamousquotes.com)

“Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.” ––QP Aberjhani (from Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays Volume 1)

 This fire that we call loving quote by Aberjhani with text graphic by FamilyShare on Facebook

“This fire that we call loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.” –Aberjhani (from Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love)

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1 Poem and 3 Quotes for the Month of November

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"When we vote we participate in the construction of a context."quote by Aberjhani quotation art graphic by J Wisdon from AZquotes“When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.” –Aberjhani, from essay Poetics of Paradigm Dancing. (quote graphic from AZquotes)

Maybe the Quotable Poet’s been taking hints from our posts. Why’s that you wanna ask? Cause he acknowledged on LinkedIn the intensity of getting a monster new poem called Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well published at the same time…wait for it…. that he dived deep-sh*t heavy in politics with 7 Steps to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion.

Most QPs could’ve pulled off one win or the other but how many you see dropping double-kicks like that? The poem is his first one published on the web since the elegy Gullah-Gospel Griot Allen Fireall written for the southern Gullah artist was published with a story about him back in March.

We’re sharing the link to Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well as the poem of the month for November. When you read it on Poetry Life and Times you can see after the by-line where it’s from an announced book of “New & Selected Poems.” That’s some big news to be slipping in on the side like that. He topped it off with a commentary on AuthorsDen that was picked up by the daily Poetry Lifetimes. Check it out:

"Reflections on Ode by Aberjhani story in Poetry Lifetimes 2014-10-29

Reflections on Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well

What we used to say about the QP Aberjhani not being much of a political writer is def no longer the case. His LinkedIn blog on Stand Your Ground laws was featured on the LinkedIn Influencers’ Law & Government page and picked up by Google News. The quote on the graphic below is part political and part spiritual, it’s been shared by some of everybody from US Senator Cory Booker on Facebook to netizens all over Tumblr. Peace political mandate quote by Aberjhani w quotation graphic by J Wisdom from AZquotes 1

“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same… Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.” —Aberjhani from essay February 15, 2003: The History That Peace Made (quote graphic from AZQuotes)

Lookin’ at the way he’s closing out 2014 makes us real curious about what’s coming up in 2015.

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