Revolutionary Daily Thoughts: The Philosophies and Opinions of Our Ancestors/Elders

[Akua Ma'at]

"If the present generation of whites would study their own race in the light of their true history, they would be anti-white themselves."

Elijah Muhammad


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[Akua Ma'at]

"A Black man is supposed to have no feelings. So when a Black man strikes back, he's an extremist. He's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy. No matter what kind of attack, be it verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up and in any way tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist....My reason for believing in extremism -- intelligently directed extremism, extremism in defense of liberty, extremism in quest of justice -- is because I firmly believe in my heart that the day that the Black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a half to injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself."

Malcolm X

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[Akua Ma'at]

"The power of the group amplifies and extends the power of its individual members. Nationalism has been used by nation-states to facilitate the consolidation of a distinct people(s) and territory as well as to create colonies and empires. Conversely, it has been, and can be utilized to overthrow colonial and imperial domination. Nationalism creates a collective, focused power which enables a people to achieve ends which, as separate individuals pursuing their own unrelated self-interested ends, they could never achieve. The power generated by nationalism is the bane and harbinger of destruction to those who wish to establish or maintain imperial control over other peoples. This is the main reason it is defamed vociferously by imperialistic peoples and nations despite the fact that it is the main instrument of their own domination of other peoples and nations. Nationalism is often catalytically brought into active existence by oppression. As an instrument of power it is often logically chosen as a means of overcoming oppressive and repressive conditions by a people who perceive themselves to be oppressed by another. Such is the case in regard to Black peoples and in regard to Black Nationalism."

Amos N. Wilson
Blueprint for Black Power


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[Akua Ma'at]

"No race is free until is has a strong nation of its own – its own system of government and its own order of society. Never give up this idea, let no one persuade you against it. It is the only protection of your generation and your race. Hold on to the idea, of an independent government and nation so long as other men have them. Never be satisfied to always live under the government of other people because you shall ever be at their mercy."

Marcus Mosiah Garvey


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[Akua Ma'at]

"A King does not beg to rule,
A Prince does not beg for honor,
A Lion does not beg its prey for food,
and You will never beg to succeed."

Liberian saying

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[Akua Ma'at]

"Speak only when you know you can assist in the solution of a difficulty. For silence is better than useless chatter. There is a an art to giving sound advice in council. Surely it is more difficult than all other duties. Those who grasp this can make it serve them."

Ptahhotep

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[Akua Ma'at]

"Calves don't follow horses."

Nigerian proverb

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[Akua Ma'at]

"The liberator is he who from a necessary silence, from a necessary secrecy strikes the destroyer. That, not loudness, is the necessary beginning."

Ayi Kwei Armah
Two Thousand Seasons

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[Akua Ma'at]

"We are not them. We cannot be them without losing sanity. No one can be Afrikan and European. The Afrikan and european ways are irreconcilably incompatible. Not even amalgamation can change that. Our Way is, has been and always will be Afrikan. So, we cannot ask of ourselves the mentacidal questions they put in our minds. We cannot seriously ask ourselves irrelevant questions or believe answers which lead to forgetfulness. Our questions must always lead us home. For, how can you find your way home by forgetting your way home? How can you find your way home by forgetting how you got to where you are now. How can you find your way home without figuring out how you got lost in the first place. Unless you see home as some backward, barbaric, pagan outland or limit it to the place your stolen ancestors were brought to, you must look further than the deception of white lies to find our truth."

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!


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[tare]

History gives you the proper context to operate in the present. -me