Tag: essays

Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)

September 2, 2014

“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence…”~Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature (This segment of Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives is published in partnership with Voices … More Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)

King of Pop Michael Jackson and the World Community – The Journey and the Rainbow

May 20, 2014

          Michael Jackson with Spanish translation of quote from article by Aberjhani. (graphic art poster courtesy of Facebook Group Blues Away) The book Journey through the Power of the Rainbow, Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry, contains a full chapter of quotes on Michael Jackson as well as the short … More King of Pop Michael Jackson and the World Community – The Journey and the Rainbow

Text and Meaning in Langston Hughes’ The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (part 1) – by Aberjhani

September 24, 2013

Harlem Renaissance author Langston Hughes typing a manuscript at his desk. (photo credit: Everett Collection) “We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs.”––Langston Hughes Among the superstars who recently joined late-night television talk show host Arsenio Hall on the set of his newly-revived program was hip-hop pioneer and … More Text and Meaning in Langston Hughes’ The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (part 1) – by Aberjhani