Metu Ra en Nemsu - Words from the Enlightened - Page 65

Breadfruit · (#1601 (**permalink**))

"Self-esteem is a function of self-activation and practice versus constant, often gratuitous, praise from others. Just as spiritual crises can produce either a weaker individual who knowingly compromises truth and/or gives in to baser desires or a stronger one who exhibits righteous behavior, pride in self and belief in one's talents and abilities, all mental elevation must come from inside work. Therefore, a permanent behavior modification must introduce the development of an internalized incentive to succeed. Those forces which motivate the individual and group should be internally grounded versus externally manipulated, taken versus given and personally experienced versus vicariously fantasized..

Lasting, resilient self-esteem is acquired through struggle. The child who comes to feel good about self because every successful and/or unsuccessful little thing/effort is applauded and/or rewarded comes to depend on that praise and/or those things for ego gratification. His (or her) esteem is dependence based."

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood

Breadfruit · (#1602 (**permalink**))

"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up . . . to their humanity, to their own worth, and to their heritage.

Omowale Malcolm X

Breadfruit · (#1603 (**permalink**))

"Conscious resistance in a hostile environment of oppression cannot be viewed as radical. It is in fact a sign of normal behavior. The individual or group who does not resist when oppressed is abnormal."

Kofi Addae

Breadfruit · (#1604 (**permalink**))

The Importance of History

"The information about how Black people came to be in a state that we find ourselves is an important story to be told so that future generations will understand that it was not genetic deficiency and/or Divine decree which created the privilege of a few and the poverty of many."

Naim Akbar
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery

Breadfruit · (#1605 (**permalink**))

Love Ourselves First

"Much of the pathology of Afrikan people today is this vain hope that somehow we will be able to escape our Afrikan heritage, that somehow the white man will become color blind and will not see us for whom and what we are, that somehow we will be looked upon as some kind of abstraction and as just a man.

Not as an Afrikan man, not as a black man, but as a man, a human being only; without culture, without recognition, without identity. Too many of us want to shed our Afrikanicity for this kind of bogus,abstract existence, which is no existence at all, and which is the ultimate acceptance of invisibility.

We must recognize that we are an Afrikan people and we will be Afrikan people to the end of time and we must accept all that goes with that. We must accept the good, the bad, and all of the possibilities that go with being Afrikan. We must accept the fact that this white man is never going to accept us totally, and get used to the idea."

Dr. Amos N. Wilson
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus The New
World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism

Breadfruit · (#1606 (**permalink**))

"If a person's "spirituality" (erroneously equated with religion) isn't elevating his/her mind to truth and freeing him/her from physical/mental bondage, then it is pagan and/or heathenism. There are many roads, but one path to true spirituality.

In essence, spirituality is awareness and there is one mode of awareness, on or off."

HLF
Blacknet Village
Thursday March 3rd, 2005
African Caribbean Social Network

Breadfruit · (#1607 (**permalink**))

" The significance of African history is shown, though not overtly, in the very effort to deny anything worthy of the name of history to Africa and the African peoples. This wide-spread, and well nigh successful endeavor, maintained through some five centuries, to erase African history from the general record, is a fact which of itself should he quite conclusive to thinking and open minds. For it is logical and apparent that no such undertaking would ever have been carried on, and at such length, in order to obscure and bury what is actually of little or no significance.

The prime significance of African history becomes still more manifest when it is realized that this deliberate denial of African history arose out of the European expansion and invasion of Africa which began in the middle of the fifteenth century. The compulsion was thereby felt to attempt to justify such colonialist conquest, domination, enslavement, and plunder.

Hence, this brash denial of history and culture to Africa, and indeed even of human qualities and capacity for 'civilization' to the indigenous people of Africa. "

Richard B. Moore
The Name "Negro": Its Origin and Evil Use,

Breadfruit · (#1608 (**permalink**))

"We must Africanize everything! Our names, our hats, our clothes, our clubs, our churches, our religion, our schools, home furnishings, business, holidays, games, arts, social functions, political parties, our manners and customs, etc., etc., etc.

Begin with yourself today. You have nothing to lose or fear. It is as natural for persons of African descent to take and maintain the customs, dress and traditions of their motherland, as it is natural for persons of European descent to continue European customs and traditions in America.

It is distinctly unnatural and degrading, even ridiculous, for persons of African descent to have and keep European customs and habits forced upon them during their enslavement. Our liberation must be complete. Every technique of slavery must be wiped out. We must begin with our so-called leaders.

Support Africanization! Note to men: adopt the African look: cut the brim off your hats, you will look like you should, and less like an imitation. Change!"

Ofuntola Oserjeman

Breadfruit · (#1609 (**permalink**))

A wealthy man here had a boy named Reuben, almost white, whom he caused to be branded in the face with the words; 'A slave for life.' St. Louis Gazette (6th November, 1845)

"Slaves and dogs are named by their masters. Free men name themselves."

Richard B. Moore

Breadfruit · (#1610 (**permalink**))

"To teach white people black and other cultures.........assumes that if
white people knew better they would behave better."

Nathan & Julia Hare
The Hare Plan

Breadfruit · (#1611 (**permalink**))

Well done Venus!!

"All Black people, irrespective of their complexion or place of origin,
are in effect Africans."
Carlos A. Cooks

Breadfruit · (#1612 (**permalink**))

"We remain one of the few people who have allowed others to become experts on our history and our ancestors; this is the source of our confusion. The Ghanaian often refers you to Rattray for information on Asante customs and some Nigerians still believe that Lady Lugard’s A Tropical Dependency says everything about Nigeria."

Afrocentricity: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World
Molefi Kete Asante