The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

— Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
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