Metu Ra en Nemsu - Words from the Enlightened - Page 61

Shemsi en Tehuti · (#1501 (**permalink**))

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Tahliba · (#1502 (**permalink**))

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!" -- Sojourner Truth

Mr. Equanimity · (#1503 (**permalink**))

"If no other medium was to be more effective than the cinema in ensuring the continued submission to its single memory of the peoples whom the West has subordinated in the course of its rise to world hegemony, no other medium is so equipped to effect our common human emancipation from this memory, from the prison walls of its world perception" Sylvia Wynter

Mr. Equanimity · (#1504 (**permalink**))

"Success is a combination of observation, dreaming, conversation and interaction.”
- Dr. Kenrick Martin Lewis

Breadfruit · (#1505 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by Brother_Derrick

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

Breadfruit · (#1506 (**permalink**))

"If you are peaceful and give everybody in the world a guarantee that you are going to be peaceful and not hurt anybody, there's nothing you can be in this kind of world but a slave."

John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed The African World Revolution?

Breadfruit · (#1507 (**permalink**))

"The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself."

Carter G. Woodson

Breadfruit · (#1508 (**permalink**))

"Because of what we see of ourselves often influences what we do about ourselves, the role of education in controlling our thoughts and actions is more important now than ever before. For the last 500 years, the history of African people throughout the world has been told through the slavery experience - only a short period in our life, considering that we are the oldest of the world's peoples.

One of our great historians, who recently made his transition, Dr. John Henrik Clarke instructs us that we need to look behind the slavery curtain in order to see what African people achieved as an independent people before slavery.

Dr. Clarke points out that, "Because this independence existed for thousands of years before Europe itself existed, we should examine the far-reaching power of the European created educational system over the minds of most of the world."

In this connection Dr. Clarke observes that, "Prior to the slave trade and European colonialism, which began in the fifteenth-century, most of the peoples of the world had a concept of God shaped by their own culture and their own understanding of spirituality. They generally saw God, or any deity, as a figure resembling themselves. The expanding presence of the European made them consider not only a new God but a new image of God as well."

Obviously this has caused great harm to African people and is at the core of the miseducation cycle we must break."

Conrad W. Worrill
Breaking The Miseducation Cycle

Breadfruit · (#1509 (**permalink**))

"It was intended that [we] should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go beyond the Whiteman’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell [our] proper name."

James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time

Breadfruit · (#1510 (**permalink**))

"One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country , he is still more African than he is American."

Malcolm X

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Breadfruit · (#1511 (**permalink**))

"I have become increasingly convinced that appeals to "racial pride" and moral duty has not produced the desired effect within the mass of the Diasporic communities, despite more than a century of serious scholarly work and several decades of broad access to empowering information. What I am suggesting is that we have too long ignored the strategies of influential corporations such as Coca Colaä and Nikeä along with a host of others who apply sophisticated marketing strategies to reach urban youth using the predominance of youth music culture to ultimately undermine any enlightened self-interests of the target community.

It should be we, who have long inspired the language and fashion of the world, who use these powerfully influential cultural axioms to determine the destiny of the vast numbers of our youth. In our present state we are the victims of others who use this knowledge to jeopardize our very existence as a civilization in the coming centuries. "

Keidi Obi Awadu
MOVING BEYOND RACE-IXM.

Breadfruit · (#1512 (**permalink**))

"You must pray for strong men and women to grow up among you to continue leading the race as your martyrs and heroes fall. Fall they must, as they do appear, but there must be a continuos procession until the goal is reached. You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service. We have been so deceived for too long. True courage, bravery and real manhood cannot fail to show itself when embodied in the individual. It has not time and no place, it is ever evident."

Marcus Garvey