[The colonizer] provokes and develops the cultural alienation of a part of the population, either by so-called assimilation, or by creating a social gap between the indigenous elites and the popular masses.

As a result of this process of dividing or of deepening the divisions in the society it happens that a con-siderable part of the population, notably the urban or peasant petit bourgeoi-sie, assimilates the colonizer’s mentality, considers itself culturally superior to its own people and ignores or looks down upon their cultural values.

Amilcar Cabral

The distance one must go to find a miracle is the distance between their knees and the floor....







You work it out!





Peace

"The Tookie Williams execution by the state of California is not just about the efficacy of the death penalty in America, or punishment for a heinous crime, but about the ethics of atonement and redemption in a racist culture and society.

Indeed, the Governor of California in his Hollywood portrayal as the 'terminator' and other violent monosyllabic killers is himself a role model for countless thugs, bandits, and murder[er]s around the globe, some of whom I've met personally.

Liberia's murderous rebels, Sierra Leonean butchers of children, and scores of other misguided youth have adopted the violent persona of .. Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" and Arnold Schwarzenegger... the 'Terminator!'"

Dhoruba Bin Wahad

"The great white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way, from his God tohis fireside. He has given to the world, from the Bible to his yellow newspaper sheet, a literature that establishes his right and sovereignty to the disadvantage of the rest of the human race.

The white man's propaganda has made him the master of the world, and all those who have come in contact with it and accepted it have become his slaves." - Marcus Garvey


Hotep.

Who are you?

You don’t know. Don’t tell me Negro, that’s nothing.

What were you before the white man named you a Negro?

And where were you?

And what did you have?

What was yours?

What language did you speak then?

What was your name?

It couldn’t have been Smith or Jones or Bunch?? or Powell.

That wasn’t your name. They don’t have those kind of names where you and I came from.

No. What was your name? And why don’t you now know what your name was then?

Where did it go?

Where did you lose it?

Who took it?

And how did he take it?

What tongue did you speak? How did the man take your tongue?

Where is your history? How did the man wipe out your history?

How did the man, what did the man do to make you as dumb as you are right now?

Malcolm X

"I consider culture as a rampart which protects a people, a collectivity. Culture must, above all, play a protective role: it must ensure the cohesion of the group.

Following this line of thinking, the vital functions of a body of African human science is to develop this science of collective belonging through a reinforcement of culture.

This can be done by developing the linguistic factors, by reestablishing the historical the consciousness of African and black people so as to arrive at a common feeling of belonging to the same culture and historical past.

Once this is attained, it will become difficult to ‘divide and rule’ and to oppose African communities one against the other.�



Dr Cheikh Anta Diop

We must accept the fact that all activities are political and whether they operate for or against our interests will be determined by our developing the ability to realistically assess and control the dynamic relationship between us and our enemies.

Bobby E. Wright

The African people cannot be read out of history. Not to know what one's race has done in former times, is to continue always as a child. The African himself, expresses the thought in saying 'knowing thyself better than he who speaks of thee. not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse'

Julius Nyerere

Nice thread:

I like this one.

Can you create a spiritual son with the grace of God

If he is righteous

If he conforms to your values

And if he takes care of your goods as well

Shower him with gifts

He is indeed your true son

He carries the seed of your kin, of your soul.

Do not let your hearts be sundered

But the seed of a man can engender conflict

If your son goes wrong

If he ignores your advice

If he is disobedient and insolent to all that you say

If he is rude and contemptuous

Drive him away

He is not your son.



Ptah Hotep

For the Black people to adopt their methods of relieving our oppression is ludicrous. We blacks must respond in our own way, on our own terms, in a manner which fits our temprament. The definitions of ourselves, the roles we pursue, the goals we seek are our responsiblity.

Kwame Ture..

The individual, the race, the nation, that helps itself is helped by god. The individual, the race or nation that leaves its destiny to forces completely exterior is doomed, and in the destruction there is no remorse, there is no shedding of tears by anyone but the sufferer himself.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey