I posted a few posts and I was castigated for using quotes from my hero like Brother Omowale and Marcus Garvey so I would like give a few quotes since it is African History Month and I suppose no one can complain now:-

Please feel free to add any quotes words of wisdom from Afrikan people. Something mama said, something you heard that inspired you. If want to give an explanation for the quote then feel free.

I do not want to hear nothing from no Arab, Cracker or any other devil, we hear what they have to say every single day. Within this western decadence call the UK which I live you need some words to carry you through when the weight of white supremacy is burdening your back

1.“Being baptized into Christianity was surrendering your soul and body, not to Christ, but to the white man. A prisoners-of-war and the church were one and the same�. – Queen Nzinga Mbandi (1582 - 1663)

2.The Family is an Army – Akan Proverb


3.“With our tires and our matches we will liberate this country� – Queen Winne Mandela

4."The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness� – Marcus Moziah Garvey


5.“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed� - Steve Biko


6.“All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishment of an African Empire—so strong and powerful, as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our life-time can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility within another generation.� - Marcus Moziah Garvey

7.“Stand on your own two black feet and fight like hell for your place in the world.� – Amy Jacques Garvey

8.“For over three hundred years the white man has been our oppressor, and he naturally is not going to liberate us to the higher freedom—the truer liberty—the truer Democracy. We have to liberate ourselves.� - Marcus Moziah Garvey


9.He who is ruled by his appetite belong to the enemy – Ptah Hotep (Ancient Afrikan wisdom)

I would like to leave you with a special quote and it is from someone who spent more than 16 years studying for a two volume book and one of his conclusion are as followed:-

“The necessary re-education of Afrikans and a possible solution of racial crisis can begin, strangely enough, only when Afrikans fully realize this central fact in their lives: the white man is their bitter enemy. This is not the ranting of wild-eyed militancy, but the calm and unmistakeable verdict of several thousand years of documented history."

DR. CHANCELLOR JAMES WILLIAMS (1898-1992) Historian

This is the conclusion an historian who conducted field studies covering 26 nations in West, Central, East and Southern Africa, researching some 105 different societies and language groups the results are documented in
The Destruction of Black Civilization--Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.

Derrick_Kerr,

I like the proverb " A tree cannot grow without it's roots". That definately agree with that. If you don't have a good ,solid family, you're not going to have good relationships with other people in and out of the family unit.--I'm not sure of the direct orator of this saying, but I read it in KINSHIP by the late Phillipe Wamba said it from his an African proverb he was taught from his African side of the family.

I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory... You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future. It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Thomas Sankara, 1985

"In this effort to imitate, however, these 'educated people' are sincere. They hope to make the Negro conform quickly to the standard of the whites and thus remove the pretext for the barriers between the races. They do not realize, however, that even if the Negroes do successfuly imitate the whites, nothing new has thereby been accomplished...an unwilling world, therefore, continues to wonder what the Negro is good for."
~Carter G. Woodson

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary."
~Carter G. Woodson

"History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning."
~Carter G. Woodson

"'Most highly educated' negroes pay little attention to the things about them except what the shoe begins to pinch on one or the other side. Unless they happen to become naked they never think of the production of cotton or wool; unless they get hungry they never give any thought to the output of wheat or corn; unless their friends lose their jobs they never inquire about the outlook for coal or steel, or how these things affect the children whom they are trying to teach...How can such persons guide the youth without knowing how these things affect the Negro community?"
~Carter G. Woodson

"If we can finally succeed in translating the idea of leadership into that of service, we may soon find it possible to lift the Negro to a higher level. Under leadership we have come into the ghetto; by service within the ranks we may work our way out of it...Under leadership we have been made to despise our own possibilities and to develop into parasites; by service we may prove sufficient unto the task of self-development and contribute our part to modern culture."
~Carter G. Woodson

"Do no get into a quarrel with the argumentative man
Nor incite him with words;
Proceed cautiously before an opponent,
And give way to an adversary;
Sleep on it before speaking,
For a storm come forth like fire in hay is,
The hot-headed man in his appointed time.
May you be restrained before him;
Leave him to himself,
And God will know how to answer him.
If you spend your life with these things in your heart,
Your children shall observe them."

~Amenhotep III, Pharaoh in the 18th Dynasty of Kemet

"Negro...religion is merely a loan from the whites who have enslaved and segregated the Negroes; and the organization, though largely an independent Negro institution, is dominated by the thought of the oppressors of the race...

In chameleon-like fashion the Negro has taken up almost everything religious which has come along instead of thinking for himself. The English split off from the Catholics because Henry VIII had difficulty in getting sanction from the Church to satisfy his lust for amorous women, and Negroes went with this ilk, singing "God save the King." Others later said the thing necessary is baptism by immersion; and the Negroes joined them as Baptists. Another circle of promoters next said we must have a new method of doing things and we shall call ourselves Methodists; and the Negroes, then embraced that faith...

For example, in 30 of the 213 religious bodies reported in 1926 were exclusively Negro...
In other words, Negroes have gone into practically all sects established by the whites; and in addition to these, they have established 30 of their own to give the system further complication and subdivision...

All of the Negro Methodists in the world, if united, would not need more than 12 bishops, and these would have time to direct the affairs of both Methodists and Baptists in a united church. There is no need for 3 or 4 bishops, each teaching the same faith and practice while duplicating the work of the other in the same area merely because a long time ago somebody following the ignorant oppressors of the race in these churches committed the sin of dissension and strife. For all of this unnecessary expense impoverished Negroes have to pay."

"It is very clear, then, that if Negroes got their conception of religion from slaveholders, libertines, and murderers, there may be something wrong about it, and it would not hurt to investigate it."

~Carter G. Woodson