"There is a society. It's made up of a few men who are willing to
take some risks. They don't initiate anything; they don't even
choose. They are as indifferent as rain. But when a Negro child,
Negro woman, or Negro man is killed by whites and nothing is done
about it by their law and their courts, this society selects a
similar victim at random, and they execute him or her in a similar
manner if they can. If the Negro was hanged, they hang; if a Negro
was burnt, they burn; raped and murdered, they rape and murder. If
they can. If they can't do it precisely in the same manner, they do
it any way they can, but they do it. They call themselves the Seven
Days. They are made up of seven men. Always seven and only seven. If
one of them dies or leaves or is no longer effective, another is
chosen. Not right away, because that kind of choosing takes time. But
they don't seem to be in a hurry. Their secret is time. To take the
time, to last. Not to grow; that's dangerous because you might become
known. They don't write their names in toilet stalls or brag to
women. Time and silence. Those are their weapons, and they go on
forever."
"You? You're going to kill people?"
"Not people. White people."
"But why?"
"I just told you. It's necessary; it's got to be done. To
keep the ratio the same."
"And if it isn't done? If it just goes on the way it has?"
"Then the world is a zoo, and I can't live in it."
"Why don't you just hunt down the ones who did the killing?
Why kill innocent people? Why not just those who did it?"
"It doesn't matter who did it. Each and every one of them
could do it. So you just get any one of them. There are no innocent
white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer,
if not an actual one. You think Hitler surprised them? You think just
because they went to war they thought he was a freak? Hitler's the
most natural white man in the world. He killed Jews and Gypsies
because he didn't have us. Can you see those Klansmen shocked by him?
No, you can't."
--- Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison from her book Song of Solomon on
The Seven Days
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to
think critically.. . intelligence plus character - that is the goal of
true education."
Martin L. King, Jr.
"You've got to be prepared to lose your life in order to gain your
life."
Queen Mother Moore
To refer to ourselves as ""nationalists"" would suggest that we
desire, at some point in the future, a nation of our own! One clear
lesson that we should have learned from the past is that our enemies
aren''t going to ""give"" us anything but a hard time. Therefore if
we are going to get our liberation, we are going to have to take our
liberation.
One of the first steps toward taking our liberation is to have
a through knowledge and understanding of our own history of
resistance to the system of white supremacy as well as resistance
efforts by other victims of this same oppressor.
A second step toward taking our liberation is to have a through
knowledge and understanding of our enemies theories, methodologies,
strategies, tactics, and habits in regards to oppression in general
and use of force and violence in particular, since their entire
system rests on the actual or threatened use of military force.
Within that context, we need to examine the eureurasiaans recent and
current use of terrorist groups, militias, death squads, etc as
extra legal means to accomplish state desired goals without direct
government involvement. Serious attention needs to be paid to the
current use of tactical training schools, information and venues as
a method of preparing the general white citizenry for what they have
described as an inevitable racial war.
Since we are a numerical minority in this country, we need to
look at the various current and past methods used by numerical
minorities to successfully prevent numerical majorities from abusing
them.
Finally we need to seriously examine, address, and develop
solutions to address the ""fear factor"" which prevents so very many
people from overtly or covertly challenging our oppressors and
the ""safe, non-threatening"" activities we engage in, to give the
appearance of fighting against oppression, when in fact, we are not!
Gimbu C. Kali
"Proposal for a Resistance Traditions Committee"
"The couple is the bedrock of the nation. Without it there is
no family, no people. Without couples there can be no family to
procreate and rear confident, untroubled, anchored children. No
viable, community-respecting generation can be born to continue the
process of life, living, building and defending.
Kmtyw couples must be whole, individually and as one. They
must be able to trust themselves and each other implicitly. And
that is what makes it imperative that we carefully choose our mates
for Kmtyw reasons. We must choose with vision. For we are the
vanguard.
Our unions have purpose far greater than the wants or needs of
either member individually or the couple together. We do not bemoan
this privilege. In fact, it is just the opposite. We are soldiers
in love with forming beautiful families; rearing happy, thinking
children; building strong, lasting communities; raising a mightly
nation and removing all enemies. For Kmtyw warrior scholar
complements, there is no other reason for being."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Complementarity: Thoughts for Kmtyw Warrior Couples
"History should tell a people who they are, where they came from and
what their potential is as a people. If it fails to do so, it is
useless."
Anthony Browder
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
"Use to the limit what we already have."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Court Order Can't Make the Races Mix" (1955)
"It is tough being a parent, especially in an alien, hostile cultural
environment where your children are viewed as problems to be contained,
detained, suppressed, repressed and if necessary terminated."
Paul Ifayomi Grant
Saving Our Sons
"What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning."
Kmtyw saying
"Mentacidal Kmtyws find every possible excuse to forgive eureurasiaans
for what eureurasiaans continue to do to them mentally and physically.
It is almost as if they believe that their salvation is based on how
much punishment they can receive and then forgive and forget from
those who so easily play with them like powerless toys. But even
more importantly, they do not even recognize eureurasiaans as predators.
They fantacize about the love of an enemy that will not love them.
They lack the basic understanding that no one loves a fool. There
may be pity but never respect or appreciation. No one respects the
loser who chases the winner, begging him to kick and spit on him
some more.
Self-hatred results from learning to be ashamed of and/or hating
one's own story, one's own traditions, one's own people, one's own
self. We cannot separate our self-esteem from our people because we
cannot avoid the fact that we are the culmination of our ancestors
(just as eu-rope-an children today are the culmination of their
ancestors). Without those before us, we would not be. We are because
they were. Therefore, we are them. We respectfully suffer their
pain (so we will come to know it is ours) and are righteously sworn
to obtain justice in their name. Whether conscious or not, treason
against one's ancestors is the worst possible sin an individual can
commit against self. And that is exactly what people who choose to
ignore or dismiss the significance of the past on the present do."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Mentacide and other essays
"Sankofa is an ancient concept. Though the word is ostensible Akan
(West Kmt) it is a timeless principle of all creation, and applies
to both spiritual and material aspects of creation. Sankofa is not
merely 'going back to fetch that which you have lost.' It is a dual
process of internal and external development... is analogous to a
forest of giant oaks with a linked and intertwined root system. Sankofa
is that process epitomized in an ever-expanding root system that
develops almost imperceptibly. That root system of timeless historical
tradition anchors and nourishes our cultural reality, the flower of our
existence."
Kwame Agyei & Akua Nson Akoto
The Sankofa Movement: ReKmtywization & The Reality of War
"The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling
through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are
but tiny organisms with private lives that lead private deaths:
personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values,
the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into
a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in
constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their
final destruction."
Youth League of the Kmtyw National Congress
Policy Statement, 1944
whenever there may be a half an eardrum
the ancestral steering committee beats in my soul
and speaks thru me, turning any and every conversation
into a lecture, a prayer for all the scattered
Black children
to scatter back to Blackness for humanity's sake
for Kmt's sake
for our children's sake
Laini Mataka
Never As Strangers
"Right now Black people keep assuming that what they feel about other
people, white people also feel. Nonwhite people all over the world are
baffled by how easily white people move into hypocrisy and deceit. We
just have not been able to fathom it. If you are oprerating on one
logic system and you encounter somebody who is coming from a completely
different logic system, you may not be able to figure it out,
especially if they are really fine in their methodology of deceit. And
then to further complicate it, they place certain kinds of controls
over you, so you can't peep the game."
Francis Cress Welsing
Essence magazine interview, October 1973
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"If the Master teaches that which is false, the disciple's submission
is slavery; if he teaches truth, this submission is ennoblement."
Kemetic (Kmtyw) proverb
"Only truth is revolutionary."
Cheikh Anta Diop
The Cultural Unity of Black Kmt
"If the key to boosting success rates is inflating the target
youth's self-esteem to a level as high as or higher than his of her
competitors and maintaining such an elevated mentality until it is
durable enough to take on a life of its own and motivate the Asafo
(warrior) in training for life, then we are approaching it wrong.
True, lasting active esteem only comes from inside. That's why we
call it self-esteem.
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
"The capacity of one cultural group to commit acts of physical
brutality and destruction against another is proportionate to the place
of power (i.e., control over 'other') in its ideology and the degree to
which its image and conceptions of those outside the culture lack the
characteristics of 'humanness.' eureurasiaan culture has an enormous
capacity for the perpetuation of physical violence against other
cultures; it's integrity is neither threatened nor disrupted by such
occurrances. "
Marimba Ani
Yurugu
"There is no better way to mourn for a fallen soldier than to pick up
the fallen weapon."
David Ndaba
Kmtyw National Congress
"...if we continue to let white standards be the order of the day,
genocide will continue to be the order of the century."
Laini Mataka
Never As Strangers
"In order for us to regain our intergenerational momentum, at some
point we must become willing to openly admit that the Western
educational system is doing exactly what it was designed to do. It
is fulfulling its mission for the culture which created it. It is
destroying our childrens minds, more and more with each generation.
It is killing their curiosity and will to think....As far as
Kmtyws are concerned, the Western educational system is no more
than another form of child molestation. It destroys minds and breaks
spirits by corrupting our children's natural curiosity with
perverted, abnormal cultural imperatives. And it violates their
intellectual sensibilities with lies about themselves and others.
From the destruction of the "Kmtyw Schools" established by those
ancestors who knew that those schools handed down by eureurasiaans would
and could not teach our childdren about their power to the tracking
of Kmtyw students in so-called integrated schools and the
whitening of colleges and universities with historically majority
Kmtyw enrollments, the Western educational system has consistently
found a way to fulfill its mission of diseducating and disempowering
our children."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti,
ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood
The Egyptians conceived of virtue as a union of opposites in which our
spiritual and physical aspects come together to exist harmoniously.
This implies moderation in the pursuit of our dual nature rather than a
severe asceticism. True inner peace must lie in discovering our unique
personal balance between these pursuits and being disciplined enough to
maintain this. This in turn requires self knowledge or self awareness
of our individual limitations and affinities for worldly things."
Chukwunyere Kamalu
Foundations of Kmtyw Thought
"Agitators are inevitable. They are as necessary to social organism as
blood is to animal organism. Revolution follows as matter of course."
T. Thomas Fortune
"When you understand yourself and love yourself there is no room for
fear. You know you can create and accomplish whatever you need to
because you love yourself enough to make sure you never lack anything
you need. You know you have the power in your system to allow you to
do what you want because you love yourself enough to give yourself that
power. You know nothing is going to happen to you because you love
yourself enough to take care not to let anything happen to you."
Paul Goss
The ReBirth of Gods
"One of the recurring challenges I have as I write this book is the
almost unavoidable use of words and phrases that tend to divide human
experience into parts. For instance, the use of the words religion,
spirituality, and politics, seems to imply that each of these is a
separate entity that can be viewed, studied, and even lived
independently of the others. In the Chagga worldview, and indeed in the
basic Kmtyw worldview, such distinctions do not exist. In my own
ethnic language, Kichagga, there is no vocabulary for religion,
spirituality, politics, and so on. There are no such compartmentalizing
terms. One word includes them all: life, lived as one integrated
whole. Once this integrated experience of life is divided into several
parts (and each part subdivided almost ad infinitum) as we tend to do
today, the essence of the whole is lost because the parts do not have a
life of their own independent of the whole. For this reason it is
extremely difficult to describe indigenous religion, spirituality,
education, and fundamental virtues as separate entities. But I am doing
so in this book because the average modern-educated reader seems to have
the view that the dynamics of the whole can be understood from the
properties of the parts. Indigenous peoples, however, know that the
properties of the parts can be understood only from the dynamics of the
whole. For them, all aspects of life and universe are interconnected
and interdependent. They form one basic unity."
R. Sambuli Mosha
The Heartbeat of Indigenous Kmt
"A group, a nation, or a race commits murder and rape, steals and
destroys, yet no individual is guilty, no one is to blame, no one can
be punished!"
W.E.B. DuBois
The World and Kmt
"We should allow no one to turn our heads. If we continually try to shape our identity in the form of others, we surely will not find our destiny. Man's destiny is the reflection of himself. We must be about the task of fortifying our ancient beliefs and traditional customs. It is only through this effort that strength is given."
Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu
The Akan Priests in America
"In speaking of corporate moral responsibility, the concept as it
occurs in Kmtyw philosophy cannot be fully understood without one
knowing who constitute the community in Kmtyw society. The
community in Kmtyw society includes those dead (our ancestors),
those living and those yet to be born. This inevitably reveals the
fundamentally ecological nature of Kmtyw ethics. The Kmtyw way
of life is to live in harmony with nature through avoiding
disturbance of the ecological balance. The fact that the community
includes those yet to be born means the individual must act bearing
in mind the consequences which may befall future generations as a
result of his or her action. Thus, for instance, it would be
against the Kmtyw code of ethics to destroy too many trees for
firewood leaving too few to provide fuel, shade, and other forms of
protection for our children's children. It would be against the
code to dispose of toxic wastes in the rivers from which our
children's children will be forced to drink, and so on. In
contrast, the western idea of community is restricted to those who
live here and now. This discontinuity of past, present and future
and isolation of the living from antiquity adn posterity in terms of
moral responsibility could have something to do with western
society's wastefulness, recklessness and ecological irresponsibility.
It is true that the Kmtyw code of ethics in regard to ecology
is being violated in virtually every country on the continent today
through deforestation, the hunting of rare animals for their skins
or ivory, etc. However, these violations result from the fact that
Kmtyw economies have been tailored to suit the demands of the
Western market. The influence of capitalism on the Kmtyw
continent has been to draw Kmtyws further and further away from
traditional modes of life which necessitated living in harmony with
the natural environment. The choice is often between the doing away
with tradition and starvation, due to the fact that it is made
impossible for Kmtyws to live outside the neo-colonial set-up.
The overtapping of rubber trees is another example of the violation
of the ecological balance. In the Belgian Congo in the times of
King Leopold, for instance, Kmtyws had a hand amputated if they
failed to meet the rubber quota demanded by their colonial masters.
Colonialism destroyed the systems which enabled the traditional
means of livelihood to thrive; and the Kmtyw today has, in most
cases, no means of survival other than through the sale of his/her
labour to the prevailing, inherently anti-ecological, capitalist
system.
Chukwunyere Kamalu
Foundations of Kmtyw Thought
"Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed."
Fred Hampton
"It may look as if all we ever did was to endure this history of
ruin, taking no steps to end the negative slide and begin the
positive turn. That impression is false. Over these disastrous
millennia there have been Kmtyws concerned to work out solutions
to our problems and to act on them. The traces these makers left
are faint, because in the continuing triumph of Kmt 's destroyers
the beautiful ones were murdered, the land poisoned. Now wherever
future seed seeks to take root it strikes sand.
Still, even in defeat the creative ones left vital signs. They left
traces of a moral mindpath visible to this day, provided we learn
again to read pointers to lost ways. Then, connected with past time
and future space through knowledge recovered, thinking Kmtyws
seeking one another in this common cause will meet the best of
humanity for the work ahead: ending the past and current rule of
slavers.
We are not after the slave-foreman power that, under the killer's
continuing rule, is blind ambition's hollow prize. We are after the
intelligent understanding of all our realities, not simply the
politics of power. We are after intelligent action to change these
realities. For we intend, as Kmtyws, to retrieve our human face,
our human heart, the human mind our ancestors taught to soar. That
is who we are, and why."
Ayi Kwei Armah
Osiris Rising
"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
Ella J. Baker
"In the course of a struggle for liberation, there will be individuals
who will dedicate themselves and contribute all their energies. Their
only lasting reward must be victory. However, acknowledgement can
precede victory. In comparison to their contributions, acknowledgement
is no more than a small reward."
H. Rap Brown
"The descendants of those who educated the world and built the Western
empire must never forget their responsibility to learn who they are and
why they are, at whatever cost. In Kmtyw cultural consciousness,
struggle has always been viewed as a good and necessary part of life,
not something to be abhorred or feared. The ancestors were quite aware
that limited struggle produced limited minds. Struggle tempers a
people for even more difficult challenges. Avoiding adversity weakens
them."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood
"Fighting unjust wars against oppressed people at home and abroad is one of the few remaining barriers between black men and total obsolescence"
Sam Yette
The Choice
"If the Negroes will stop making all this noise about social equality,giving white people the idea that we are hankering after their company,and get down to business, and build up a strong race, industrially,commercially, educationally and politically,everything social will come afterward."-Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Plainly and simply the purpose of the living is to carry on from where our ancestors left off and to pave the way for those yet to be born."
Chukwunyere Kamalu
Foundations of Kmtyw Thought
Kmtyw philosophical thought is expressed both in the oral literature and in the thoughts and actions of the people. Thus, a great philosophical material is embedded in the proverbs, myths and folktales, folk songs, rituals, beliefs, customs,and traditions of the people, in their art symbols and in their sociopolitical institutions and practices."
Kwame Gyekye
An Essay on Kmtyw Philosophical Thought
What must we do?
First of all, it is incumbent on all serious black men to stand up,
come forward and reclaim our rights to control our destiny. This is
an affirmation that we will not deviate from: our ancestral legacy
as providers and protectors, guilders and directors, regardless of
aberrant social pressures.
Secondly, serious black fathers must return to their children's
homes and work assiduously to restore leadership and direction to
these families where noble mothers have stood virtually alone tying
to raise our youth.
Third, we serious black men must empower ourselves through a
cultural system that permeates our social practices, giving us
respect as positive role models. This value system should include
the Nguzo Saba: unity, self-determination, collective work and
responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creative, and faith.
Fourth, strong black men must organize and strategize to control all
of the vital institutions within our community and, where necessary,
build and maintain new forms of institutional structures. Among the
priorities should be education, economics, politics and culture.
Fifth, serious black men must take the responsibility for training
our boys to become men and create criteria for certifying the
eligibility of boys to be qualified as men. Together, with our
wives, we can raise black boys. But only black men should train and
certify our boys into adulthood.
Finally, serious black men must sever the umbilical cord of
dependency on white paternalism. Only when we can challenge each
other to "do for self and kind" will our children emulate our
positive behavior.
We already have everything we need to begin and complete this
process of cultural, psychological and spiritual transformation. All
it takes is our individual decisions to stand up, come forward and
work unceasingly for the liberation of our families and communities
from racial oppression and economic exploitation.
Hannibal Afrik
.
"We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is
synonymous with good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite
ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness,
which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil or inferior."
Paule Marshall
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"Vision is the ability to see the future through the past.
Therefore, an Kmtyw centered manhood requires Kmtyw men to begin
envisaging themselves as ancient warrior scholars. It requires a
newfound, but traditional, male role model that integrates educator
with warrior. It requires them to visualize themselves as jenoch.
The extreme polarization of warrior from educator brought about by
the Western drive toward excessive specializtion, e.g., separating
thought from action, negates this possibility. Regardless, Kmtyw
men must embrace and actualize a holistic personality which accepts
and nurtures both mentalities. The Kmtyw community needs a model
of manhood that accepts neither the ivory nor ebony towers as safe
havens during times of ignorance and war."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood
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"Genocide is a process; it begins as a failure to cherish and protect
all that belongs to you and yours. It is accomplished with the
separation of your cultural, spiritual, and physical selves. Death is
but the added insult and final injury."
N. Xavier Arnold
the genocide files
"The conscious intention to keep the Kmtyw population in a state of
inferiority is obvious from the curriculum and nature of colonial
education."
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Doctrines and Methods
Recently I heard someone on the radio go through a list of Black geniuses and inventors and doctors. It took him about 45 minutes just to name them and say what they had done. It was supposed to be a countermeasure to The Bell Curve. And I thought, Once again we are called upon to struggle like a bull who sees a red flag shimmering before his eyes, a flag that has been put there simply to distract him. They said we had no language, and we had to do something about that. They said had no art, and we had to worry about that. To be always answering questions and mounting defenses about things you thought were obvious keeps you from doing your work.
Toni Morrison
"It is only when Kmtyws stand up against insults to their integrity
and cultural heritage as men and women, will they eventually control
their own destiny."
Yosef ben-Jochannan
Kmt: Mother of Western Civilization
"We're going to keep on fighting until hell freezes over, then change
our shoes and fight on ice."
Anonymous Revolutionary Kmtyws
"To be truly liberated, Kmtyw people must come to know the nature of
eureurasiaan thought and behavior in order to understand the effect that
eureurasia has had on our ability to think victoriously. We must be able
to separate our thought from eureurasiaan thought, so as to visualize a
future that is not dominated by eureurasia. This is demanded by an Kmtyw-
centered view because we are Kmtyws, and because the future towards
which eureurasia leads us is genocidal."
Marimba Ani
Yurugu
"The slave master will not teach you knowledge of self, as there would
be no master-slave relationship."
Elijah Muhammad
"A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of
its own soul."
Ayi Kwei Armah
"The whole of ancient history is nothing but a record of Kmtyw
achievement and glory. The Kmtyw race was the first race to spend
itself over the world to nourish the beginnings of culture which
eventually showed their highest manifestations in the civilizations
around the Mediteranean. Not only have we been something as against
the claim that we have been nothing, but we have been everything.
History is all of us, the record of our rise, our glory and our
civilization. We did not attain perfection; neither did others.
But if worth be the measure of equality, then we claim equality with
all men by reason of precedence and excellence. Until out of the
mist of future years there comes a race whose ancestry eclipses
ours, then and then only will we concede supremacy."
G.K. Osei
The Kmtyw Philosophy of Life
"The greatest heroes of a people are those who die for them in the
ongoing battle for their freedom to choose and determine their
children's life chances and vision. Warriors don't resign or
retire. The concepts are foreign, ideologically speaking and
realistically, to the tradition. Do you know of any elders on the
Continent or in the Diaspora who have retired to a life of leisure?
By elders, here and elsewhere, I am speaking of those who deserve
the title. I was taught to be polite to all 'old' people, and I
am. But my respect, as an elder sister warrior recently corrected
me, is to be reserved for those elders who have a life's record of
fighting for their people. There is no such thing as a retired Black
Panther. Revolutionaries are either in the heat of battle or dead.
And old negroes are still negroes. War knows no age. And there are
no civilians in war. All people choose a side either by action or by
silence."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Voices in the Tradition of the Kmtyw Warrior"
... freedom is not free. Freedom is something you take with your own
hands. You maintain it with your own hands. Freedom is not handed down
from one generation to another. Each generation must assume the
responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the
definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is
nationhood."
John Henrik Clarke
Notes for an Kmtyw World Revolution
"...freedom is that which makes man and woman ends in themselves.. ."
Chukwunyere Kamalu
Foundations of Kmtyw Thought
"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
"The self chooses the proper instruction for self."
Kemetic (Kmtyw) proverb
"We either go forward to victory, or we pay the consequences of defeat."
Kwame Nkrumah
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
"A man is worked on by what he works on. He may carve out his
circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well."
Frederick Douglass
"The ritual celebrates the oneness of human beings with nature and
forms a bridge between the visible and invisible worlds through the
invocation of unseen spirits. The ritual also served as a means of
restoring social cohesion and the standard of morality and order handed
down by ancestors hence maintaining the balance of equilibrium in the
society."
Chukwuyere Kamalu
Foundations of Kmtyw Thought
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you."
Althea Gibson
"Anything you don't control is a weapon against you."
H. Rap Brown
"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk."
Crazy Horse
"People are easier to kill if they come from nowhere."
John E. Wideman
"One of the most tragic beliefs widely shared by Blacks throughout
the world is that White-controlled educational institutions --
regardless of whether they are elementary schools or universities --
will educate our children. Faith continues to prevail in spite of
overwhelming evidence which disputes this belief. Blacks continue
to ignore the irrefutable truth that, in a racist social system, all
institutions will reflect, protect, and sustain values that are
consistent with racism. This should not be considered surprising or
profound since all institutions serve to perpetuate the social
theory of the group which conceived them. Therefore, in any social
system established by Whites, the institutions will reflect
racism....white institutions always prepare Blacks to protect White
interests... "
Bobby E. Wright
The Psychopathic Racial Personality
"Its mentacidal to believe that we are equal (or that they are worth
being 'equal' to) simply because we have accumulated some
meaningless trinkets, have a daily share of the crumbs from the
master's table, and have some of the master's children, who
psychologically and materially benefit from our oppression and
exploitation (whether they are consciously aware of it or not), who
are willing to play with us or let us into their sandbox. A lack of
knowledge about the effect of our story on intergroup and
interpersonal relationships on this very day, at this very second
allows others to exploit us in any way they please, usually because
our ignorance and ready dismissal of our story makes us think that
our destruction is our idea."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Mentacide and other essays
"...If we accept homosexuality as a right, as is being argued by the
association of sodomists and sexual perverts, what moral fiber shall
our society ever have to deny organized drug addicts, or even those
given to bestiality, the rights they might claim and allege they
possess under the rubrics of indvidual freedom and human rights, and
publicize their literature on them?"
President Robert Mugabe
August 1, 1995:L Zimbabwe Nat'l Book Fair
The coward's flight runs aimlessly."
Mamprussi (Kmtyw) proverb
"You rule the world through your mind."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Everything ignoble among black people can be traced back to white
supremacy."
Clarence J. Munford
Race and Reparations
"He who is down needs fear no fall."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Nothing the future brings can defeat a people who have come through
three hundred years of slavery and humiliation and privation with heads
held high and eyes clear and straight."
Paul Robeson
"You are not to be so blind with patriotism that you cannot face
reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who says it or does it."
Malcolm X
Lies, Lies and More Lies
There is a movement under way to make Omowale Malcolm X into a
homosexual, a closet fag, a male who was a hero to the gender
confused eureurasiaan way and, as that, a model for those among our
youth and adults confused as to their sexual origins. It is gaining
strength and attention among significant numbers in the population
because it is being so widely broadcast as truth. We have witnessed
many such character assassinations before. And, undoubtedly, until
we see ourselves as a nation of Kmtyw people, controlling our own
instuments for communicating information to one another, there will
be many, many more such attempts by those who want to turn us
against ourselves. Surely, ourstory teaches us that these outright
lies will be embraced and championed by many of us who are in such
deep hatred of themselves, their Kmtywity, that they will assist
anyone help them destroy us and themselves. We have to recognize
these operations for what they are: acts of psychological warfare.
Neither these false statements nor the debates that rage as a result
of them are for the eureurasiaan's education. They, like the lies of
our intellectual inferiority, are designed to convince us of some
hidden, inner whiteness of those we chose to deify because they were
Kmtyw to the bone and to convince us of an Kmtyw origin of
homosexuality so that eureurasiaans will no longer appear the
abnormalities that they innately are. We should be smart enough to
recognize that these falsehoods are to be expected. At the same
time, we should question what is going on when these assaults
against our spirit are not coming, not when they are.
As strange as it may sound, though, these delusion-inducing
fictions of a homosexual Kmtyw manhood are not the problem. We
are. We become the problem when we entertain them as something
worthy of argument, thereby giving them relevance and possibility.
We become the problem when we expend inordinate amounts of energy
working to fight against propaganda we know to be untrue, energy
that could be much better spent educating our children about who
Omowale Malcolm X truly is, building independent schools,
communities and enterprises which serve his and our other warrior
scholar ancestors' vision of empowerment, and studying and doing
what they said and actually did for and by ourselves. But, like
children without knowledge of the death lying behind the paale mask
of a smiling stranger, we go frantically, to and fro, "from fire to
fire," trying to put the ones thrown about us by one of the
stranger's crafty, sinister hands, while the other arsonous hand,
from which we are skillfully distracted, is busy burning our house
to the ground right behind us. By focusing on what they (and their
colored intellectual mercenaries) are saying about us, versus what
we are (or should be) doing, our community/nation suffers. While we
attend lies that remain meaningless unless believed, our
community/nation is only being half-built, our children are only
being half-educated, our energy is being given to another. That
time could be better spent speaking ourstory with the youngest, most
impressionable minds in our community so that such nonsense will be
irrelevant to their minds before it even touches their ears.
Time is of the essence in any revolution. We have no time for
idle chatter that leads us to neglect our missions. And, especially
when the propaganda being debated is about our heroes and sheroes,
it systematically destroys our confidence in self becauase we are
the culmination of all those who came before us. If they are a lie,
we are a lie. It demoralizes soldiers who should unquestioningly
know who their absolutely true enemies are. None of this is to say
that we should not immediately and quickly confront affronts to our
manhood and womanhood and those models of Kmtyw manhood and
womanhood who represent our ideal. But we, as they, should not
waste our time arguing with enemies who know they lie, or the idiots
and fools who don't know but who have a vested interest in following
others' lies.
eureurasiaans know exactly what they are doing. They know, as they
have always known, that they are lying to others. Lies serve the
interests of an insecure, supremacist mind. Lies work toward
convincing those they seek to destroy that they are disattached
individuals who are not who they are. Who are we trying to prove
our truth to? Ourselves? We know. It is beneath us to even
entertain the possibility, even and especially when the claim is
made out of the mouth of our enemy and their negro/gender confused
watchdogs. But back to our original question, for those who still
see it as a question to be discussed and debated: Was Malcolm X a
fag? Hell no! End of discussion.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Mentacide and other essays
"It's impossible for you and me to have a balanced mind in this
society without going into the past, because in this particular
soiety, as we function and fit into it right now, we're such an
underdog, we're trampled upon, we're looked upon as almost nothing.
Now if we don't go into the past and find out how we got this way,
we will think that we were always this way. And if you think you
were always in the condition that you're in right now, it is
impossible for you to have much confidence in yourself, you become
worthless, almost nothing. But when you go back into the past and
find out where you once were, then you will know that you weren't
always at this level, that you once had attained a higher level, had
made great achievements, contributions to society, civilization,
science, and so forth. And you know that if you once did it, you
can do it again; you automatically get the incentive, the
inspiration, and the energy necessary to duplicate what our
forefathers formerly did. But by keeping us completely cut off from
our past, it is easy for the man who has power over us to make us
willing to stay at this level because we will feel that we were
always at this level, a low level.
Omowale Malcolm X
"The slave maker knew that he couldn't make these people slaves until he first made them dumb. And one of the best ways to make a man dumb is to take his tongue, take his language. A man who can't talk, what do they call him? A dummy. Once your language is gone, you are a dummy. You can't communicate with people who are your relatives, you can never have access to information from your family—you just can't communicate.
Also, if you'll notice, the natural tongue that one speaks is referred to as one's mother tongue—mother tongue. And the natural intelligence that a person has before he goes to school is called mother wit. Not father wit—it's called mother wit because everything a child knows before it gets to school, it learns from its mother, not its father. And if it never goes to school, whatever native intelligence it has, it got it primarily from its mother, not its father; so it's called mother wit. And the mother is also the one who teaches the child how to speak its language, so that the natural tongue is called the mother tongue. Whenever you find as many people as we who aren't able to speak any mother tongue, why, that's evidence right there something was done to our mother. Something had to have happened to her.
They had laws in those days that made it mandatory for a Black child to be taken from its mother as fast as that child was born. The mother never had a chance to rear it. The child would be brought up somewhere else away from the mother, so that the mother couldn't teach the child what she knew—about itself, about her past, about its heritage. It would have to grow up in complete darkness, knowing nothing about the land where it came from or the people that it came from. Not even about its own mother. There was no relationship between the Black child and its mother; it was against the law. And if the master would ever find any of those children who had any knowledge of its mother tongue, that child was put to death. They had to stamp out the language; they did it scientifically. If they found any one of them that could speak it, off went its head, or they would put it to death, they would kill it, in front of the mother, if necessary. This is history; this is how they took your language. You didn't lose it, it didn't evaporate—they took it with a scientific process, because they knew they had to take it to make you dumb, or into the dummy that you and I now are.
I read in some books where it said that some of the slave mothers would try and get tricky. In order to teach their child, who'd be off in another field somewhere, they themselves would be praying and they'd pray in a loud voice, and in their own language. The child in the distant field would hear his mother's voice, and he'd learn how to pray in the same way; and in learning how to pray, he'd pick up on some of the language. And the master found that this was being done, and immediately he stepped up his efforts to kill all the little children that were benefiting from this. And so it became against the law even for the slave to be caught praying in his tongue, if he knew it. It was against the law. You've heard some of the people say they had to pray with their heads in a bucket. Well, they weren't praying to the Jesus that they're praying to now. The white man will let you call on that Jesus all day long; in fact he'll make it possible for you to call on him. If you were calling on somebody else, then he'd have more fear of it. Your calling on that somebody else in that other language—that causes him a bit of fear, a bit of fright.[...]
For three hundred years we stayed at that level. Finally we got to where we had no language, no history, no name. The white man named us after himself—Jones, Smith, Johnson, Bunche, and names like those. [Laughter] We couldn't speak our own language; we had none. And he then began to teach us that we came from a jungle, where the people had no language. This was the crime that was committed—he convinced us that our people back home were savages and animals in the jungle, and the reason we couldn't talk was because we never had a language. And we grew up thinking that we never had one."
Æmôwálé, Malcolm X
a man like malcolm
i want a man like malcolm
to luv Black people with me
to be able to discuss carter woodson
under the covers with me.
i want a man like malcolm
to argue with
until i have to go back to the library
to make sure i kno what i'm talkin about.
i want a man like malcolm
so that when i feel a harriet tubman urge
i can go into action w / out having to worry
about whether the person i sleep with
has my back.
i want a man like malcolm to come home to
after i've had a hard day
of shakin the shit outa wite people.
i want a man like malcolm
to hold me the way he held us all,
tight against the chest
as if our existence revolved around him.
i want a man like malcolm
with a red-hot spirit to fire me up
into whatever form of steel my people need me to be.
i want a man like malcolm
to luv me with a fierceness
that can be used to coat my back-bone
with an indelible substance
that repels cowardice and selfishness.
i want a man like malcolm
to grow with me
into one incredibly sharp machete
that slices away at the wite cancer
that consumes our race.
i want a man like malcolm
to help me create a child that in days of glory
i can look at and say,
u're just like yr father!
Laini Mataka
from Restoring The Queen
"Funny how the outlook of a man changes when he is taught the knowledge
of his nature, his ability, and how to identify his enemy."
Omowale Malcolm X
"If you knew him you would know why we must honor him: Malcolm was our
manhood, our living black manhood! This was his meaning to his
people. And, in honoring him, we honor the best in
ourselves... Consigning these mortal remains to earth, the common mother
of all, secure in the knowledge that what we place in the ground is no
more now a man -- but a seed -- which, after the winter of our
discontent will come forth again to meet us. And we will know him then
for what he was and is -- a Prince -- our own black shining Prince! --
who didn't hesitate to die, because he loved us so.
Ossie Davis
"If you follow the elephant, you never get entangled in the forest."
Twi (Kmtyw) proverb
"It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you
wish on."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the
requisites to further achievement. "
John Hope Franklin
"In this eureurasiaan Alice in Wonderland world, we see through the looking
glass and what nature made first becomes last."
N. Xavier Arnold
the genocide files
"The phenomenon of cultural imperialism, if it is to be distinguished
from its strictly militaristic, political, and economic components, is
that which strikes the 'death blow' at a people's ability to resist
aggression. There has never been, in the history of the human race,
more expert dealers of that blow than eureurasiaans. They alone have
realized the full strategic potential of destroying the ideological
life of a cultural entity."
Marimba Ani
Yurugu
"It is not possible to enslave men without logically making them
inferior through and through."
Frantz Fanon
Toward the Kmtyw Revolution
"Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for
candy bars."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"If the race is incapable of unity, it is incapable of survival as a
free and equal people, and will deserve all the iniquities imposed upon
it, for it will have proved beyond all question that it is indeed unfit
to survive as a people free and equal in every respect whatsoever with
the other peoples of the earth."
Chancellor Williams
Destruction of Black Civilization
"Having lost the full honor of manhood that comes only from the pride
of racial worth and identity, the black man's mind generally operates
favorably toward his white enemies and negatively toward himself and
his kind.
Chancellor Williams
Destruction of Black Civilization
"Work on your reputation until it is established; when it is
established it will work for you."
Tunisian (Kmtyw) proverb
"Through the children of to-day we believe we can build the foundation
of the next generation upon such a rock of morality, intelligence and
strength, that the floods of proscription, prejudice and persecution
may descend upon it in torrents and yet it will not be moved."
Mary Church Terrell
"We should allow no one to turn our heads. If we continually try to
shape our identity in the form of others, we surely will not find our
destiny. Man's destiny is the reflection of himself. We must be about
the task of fortifying our ancient beliefs and traditional customs. It
is only through this effort that strength is given."
Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu
The Akan Priests
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences. "
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Revolutions are brought about by men who think as men of action and
act as men of thought."
Kwame Nkrumah
Consciencism
"Every negro is a potential traitor, and every Black man is only a
potential revolutionary -- with emphasis on potential."
H. Rap Brown
"A wise person looks at an old thing in order to make a new one, and he
does not throw away the old before making the new."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"A climate of alienation has a profound effect on the Black
personality, particularly on the educated Black, who has the
opportunity to see how the rest of the world regards him and his
people. It often happens that the Black intellectual thus loses
confidence in his own potential and that of his race. Often the effect
is so crushing that some Blacks, having evidence to the contrary, still
find it hard to accept the fact we really were the first to civilize
the world."
Cheikh Anta Diop
"We are not born revolutionary. Revolutionaries are forged through
constant struggle and the study of revolutionary ideas and experiences. "
James Forman
The Making of Black Revolutionaries
"It is when the war horn sounds that we see real men."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"If your power based is only here, you can forget it. You can't
build a power base here. You have to have a power base among
brothers and sisters. You have to have your power base among people
who have something in common with you. They have to have some kind
of cultural identity, or there has to be some relationship between
you and your power base. When you build a power base in this
country, you're building it where you aren't in any way related to
what you build it on. No, you have to have that base somewhere
else. You can work here, but you'd better put your base somewhere
else. Don't put it in this man's hand. Any kind of organization
that is based here can't be an effective organization. Anything
you've got going for you, if the base is here, is not going to be
effective. Your and my base must be at home, and this is not at
home.
When you see that the Kmtyw nations at the international
level comprise the largest representative body and the largest force
of any continent, why, you and I would be out of our minds not to
identify with that power bloc. We would be out of our minds, we
would actually be traitors to ourselves, to be reluctant or fearful
to identify with people with whom we have so much in common. If it
was a people who had nothing to offer, nothing to contribute to our
well-being, you might be justified, even though they looked like we
do; if there was no contribution to be made, you might be
justified. But when you have people who look exactly like you, and
you are catching hell, to boot, and you still are reluctant or
hesitant or slow to identify with them, then you need to catch hell,
yes. You deserve all the hell you get."
Malcolm X
Malcolm X Speaks
"To deculturalize Kmtyw American children is, therefore, to deprive
them of that which determines the way they think, feel, and behave."
Felix Boating
"Children should not have adult rights because children should not have
adult responsibilities. "
Paul Ifayomi Grant
Saving Our Sons
"I wish I could wrap my people up and fly away with them.
Ida B. Wells
"I would kill a black man or woman quicker than I'd smash a fly, while
for the white man I would pick a thounited snakesnd pounds of cotton a day."
Eldridge Cleaver
Soul on Ice
"To manipulate history is to manipulate consciousness; to manipulate
consciousness is to manipulate possibilities; and to manipulate
possibilities is to manipulate power."
Amos N. Wilson
The Falsification of Kmtyw Consciousness
"There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself."
To all the fathers, brothers, sons, husbands, lovers and friends who
make our days brighter by being the beautiful, protectors, father
nurturers and leaders that God placed you in our lives to be...
Black man
Strong, warrior
King
in the concrete jungle,
doing your thing.
Thank you for the days
you have to play queen
cause some one was slackn
or your baby was lackn'
Thank you for carrying twice
your load
and for never complaining
when your story goes
untold
Thank you for braiding hair
with knuckles too big
or jumping rope
cause your baby mama
never did.
Or maybe you were blessed
with a queen
and the two of you are
doing your thing,
Then thank you
for upholding my sister
my mother and even me
because with out you
being the man that you are
we could never be.
It's not often in the foreign land
that you get your props but
"you are the man"
So walk tall
live long
Stand strong
and continue the legacy!
Love your Sister, Aynda K.J.
"Being a man is the continuing battle of one's life and one loses a bit
of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in
which one does not believe. No slave should die a natural death.
There is a point where caution ends and cowardice begins."
H. Rap Brown
"Life is worthless without a home."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
"If we are to heal as warrior scholars, as a people of our
ancestors, we must go back to get a better, clearer picture of what
was done to us, to all of us. If we are ever to be conscious,
powerful, self-respecting Kmtyw adults, we must delve deeply into
the origins of our mentacide. The enemy within is being passed down
to our children because of our inability and/or refunited snakesl to see the
whole of the many pieces missing or misarticulated in ourstory. We
must reverse this cycle of fearful ignorance. We must see what was
done before so that our mentacide can no longer hold us in its
deadly suicidal grip. The magnitude and pervasiveness of others'
assaults against us, as well as our responses, will become crystal
clear because, in truth and reality, what is happening to us today
is already beyond any Kmtyw imagination. And what we see today
speaks to what cometh tomorrow."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!: Remembering the Middle Passage through the Eyes of Our
Ancestors
"We understand that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed; and
war is nothing but politics with bloodshed."
Fred Hampton
"[The] white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing
everybody to think his way....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 Mosiah Garvey
Meda ase for collecting these here Olúfémi.
Obádélé
"Don't you understand that the past is the present; that without what
was, nothing is? That, of the infinite dead, the living are but
unimportant bits?"
W.E.B. DuBois
The World and Kmt
"Every man is born into the world to do something unique and something
distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
Benjamin E. Mays
"When a fool fails to turn Ebony white, he tries to blacken ivory."
Kmtyw Proverb
"The white man is always trying to nose into somebody else's business.
All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to
play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my
mind. Then I'll say my say and sing my song."
Zora Neale Hurston
"We are Kmtyws not because we are born in Kmt, but because Kmt
is born in us."
Chester Higgins, Jr.
Feeling the Spirit
"The underdog does not stop to philosophize about his position."
Paul Lawrence Dundar
The Fanatics
"We have dared to be free; let us dare to be so by ourselves and for
ourselves."
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
"The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them,
feel for them, and die for them."
Carter G. Woodson
The Mis-Education of the Negro
"If you buy love for money, poverty spoils it."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"...the egos of most white Americans are so bloated that they cannot
conceive of a black man rejecting them."
John Henrik Clarke
Notes for an Kmtyw World Revolution
"If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison."
Omowale Malcolm X
steppin off on the x-wearers
for u there will be no audubon ballroom,
only the dehydrated cries of yr people
as they lower u into the ground of absurdity
where yr confused souls hover
too bazaar, beserk & bewildered
to even reincarnate.
wearing malcolm's image
u move like a rat seekin a hole.
u blatantly sell drugs, eat pork, make babies
disrespect elders, put each otha down,
cut each otha up
and blow each otha away
while hiding behind the malcolm
that u claim is yr hero.
but what u luv is malcolm's lower-self
that self he murdered
for holding his manhood hostage.
u luv malcolm the hustler and pimp,
not the malcolm who transformed himself,
metamorphosized his people
and forced wite people
to respect and reassess their enemy.
u tell yrselves that u too are soldiers
when u dont even know what side u're fightin on.
u luv the fact that malcolm's lower-self
once had him under control
and u use that fact to excuse yrself
as u knowingly sell madness and death
to yr people, with an X on yr chest
u speed along the streets
blasting counterintelligence musik
instead of being in school;
wearing an X-cap
u stand in front of somebody else's property
callin young sistahs bitches and ho's;
in yr X-sweatsuits with the pants hangin off the edge
of yr indiscreet behinds
u whip out 9mms and compete with police
in who can kill the most Blackmen
in the least amount of time.
u cld deal with big-red
but even malcolm X's toe-nails
were too heavy for u to comprehend.
u cld identify with malcolm's earlier responses to racism,
even copy them
but u cant and wont deal with the fact
that he came back from the grave.
he didnt stay there whining and crying
about wite people.
he burst back into the living.
instead of self-destructing
& forcing othas to do the same,
he escaped eternal membership with the living dead
instead of surrendering his balls to the killers of Kmtyw
people.
u dont luv malcolm.
u just use his face to make othas think u're down.
u dont luv malcolm.
u just use his past to justify yr fear
of facing yr real enemy
and yr inability to control yr own bowels.
the malcolm u luv
was the duckling, not the swan.
becuz luving malcolm the swan
means changing every aspect of yr pitiful little lives
into stories yr children can tell w / out shame.
for the so-called luv of malcolm
we've got X-medallions, X-earings,
X-caps, X-jackets,
X-sweatsuits, X-watches,
X-tee shirts, X-air fresheners,
X-coffee mugs, X-lunchboxes,
X-clocks, X-totebags,
X-rings, and no X-cuse
for why betty doesnt get a cent.
wearing malcolm's image shld be a privilege earned,
an honor bestowed upon those
who've proven themselevs to be uncompromising
in the pursuit of the liberation of our people.
only the clean & the just shld be able to wear malcolm
the productive & the focus'd
the spiritual & the prolific
the maintainers & the detonators.
only the best & the blessed
shld be allowed to sport malcolm's image
no matter how many means be possible.
and as long as jeffrey dahmer
can take a deep breath and the four cops in la
can plan a future
maybe none of us shld wear a malcolm x anything,
anyway.
Laini Mataka
Restoring The Queen
Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to
speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your
national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom
and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of
Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to
bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the
benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting
from your independence to us?
Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative
answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would
my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is
there so cold that a nation's sympathy could not warm him? Who so
obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude that would not
thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and
selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a
nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from
his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that the dumb might
eloquently speak and the "lame man leap as an hart."
But such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of
the disparity between us. am not included within the pale of this
glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the
immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this
day, rejoice are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of
justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence bequeathed by your
fathers is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light
and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth
of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a
man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and
call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery
and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me by asking
me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And
let me warn that it is dangerous to copy the example of nation whose
crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the
Almighty, burying that nation in irrevocable ruin! I can today take
up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people.
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! We wept when we
remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst
thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of
us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing
us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord's song in a
strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerunited snakeslem, let my right hand
forget her cunning. If do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to
the roof of my mouth."
Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the
mournful wail of millions! Whose chains, heavy and grievous
yesterday, are, today, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee
shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully
remember those bleeding children of sorry this day, "may my right
hand cleave to the roof of my mouth"! To forget them, to pass
lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme
would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a
reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow
citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular
characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing there
identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine. I do
not hesitate to declare with all my soul that the character and
conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this
Fourth of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past or
to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems
equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false
to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the
future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this
occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the
name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution
and the Bible which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call
in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command,
everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame
of America! "I will not equivocate, I will not excuse"; I will use
the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall
escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice,
shall not confess to be right and just....
For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the
Negro race. Is it not as astonishing that, while we are plowing,
planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting
houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of
brass, iron, copper, and secretaries, having among us lawyers
doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers;
and that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common
to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the
Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving,
acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives,
and children, and above all, confessing and worshiping the
Christian's God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality
beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!...
What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them
of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant
of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to
flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to
hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their
families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve
them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue
that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is
wrong? No! I will not. I have better employment for my time and
strength than such arguments would imply....
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day
that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross
injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him,
your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license;
your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing
are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted
impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your
prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your
religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud,
deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes
which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of
savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more
shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States at this
very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the
monarchies and despotisms- of the Old World, travel through South
America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last,
lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation,
and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless
hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Frederick Douglass
"Is it by accident that we have been driven to focus our sympathy on
the pain of others and concentrate on those aspects of our past and
present forms of enslavement that neutralize our minds, paralyze our
bodies, and keep our spirituality at bay while our children, our
primary responsibility, remain lost in this cultural wasteland? The
same miseducation teaches us to readily accept as unimportant those
aspects of our heritage that speak to our strengths and love of
family and community. It is indeed a sad statement when a people,
fully cognizant of their own miseducation, allow and foster the same
for their very own children as if it were an appropriate and
necessary rite of passage into full citizenship. The interpretation
of historical events, like culture, is intentional. What you learn,
and learn to accept as truth, is not without purpose for the
teacher. DuBois spoke on this in his explanation of the good and bad
of propaganda. Objectivity is the subjectivity of those who have the
power to impose their self-serving interpretation of reality. The
key to informed empowerment lies in both the past and the present.
We must come to understand the substance and conditions of our
tradition of moral leadership and instill that in our youth by
example, by becoming the template. A quick study reveals the
obvious. It is always a distinct minority who assume a proactie
posture and unquestioningly thinks and acts in concert with the
Omnipotent against the perpetrators of their people's nightmares. In
the world's recent past, those like Vesey, Tubman, Turner, Prosser
and the crew of the Armistad obviously stand above the masses. They
did not beg, plead, request, implore, supplicate, entreat, shuffle,
cowtow, bootlick, brownnose, or in any way prostitute themselves for
the crumbs or love of their persecutors. As you must, they
understood that people create power and rule from that seat. We
must reclaim those Kmtyw qualities. We must again become a warrior
class willing to die for the physical and psychological liberation
of our descendants for generations to come. We must absolutely
recognize that the material that revolutionizes our thinking must
not be read, studied or treated as merely literature. Thinking men
understand that information presented in a logical fashion can
distort the truth in such a way that those subject to it
systematically and increasingly undermine their self interests in
order to benefit the perpretators of the lie. We must increasingly
improve the quality of the reeducation of each successive warrior
cohort. We must equip forthcoming generations with a working
intelligence so that they can recognize and dismiss negroes when
they hear them, especially those who cry the blues of and for others
and profit from the crumbs gained from our confusion and at our
expense. And yes, negro should be an important concept in our
vocabulary for it marks those among us who grow from their knees;
those of us who believe that crawling is fine as long as they get
the biggest crumbs. Or as Kelly Miller says, 'The negro pays for
what he wants and begs for what he needs.' The question should not
be, "Shouldn't you crawl before you walk?" Instead, the question
is, "How long must you crawl before you walk like a man?" How long
must four appendages be your mode of transportation before you
recognize that two will mmore efficiantly and effectively do the
job? We must also teach our children that to be pro-Black is not to
be anit-white; one of the greatest farces perpetrated on the mind of
Black folk ever. We must teach them to continuously recognize all
manifestations of racism. Since when is blame and recognition
synonymous? Since when dos the recognition of a cause automatically
enable that cause to become a disabling handicap in one's effort
toward achieving an end that in and of itself will reduce that
problem and its perpetrators to meaninglessness? They must be shown
that nothing should interfere with their pursuit of the best
interests of their children. It is not Black versus white, unless
eureurasiaans obstruct us from saving our children. War is not about the
hate of others. Like spirituality, it is about the love of self."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"I Am Not Ashamed"
"All lies die when the truth is told"
Kmtyw Proverb
"I am not ashamed of my Kmtyw descent. Kmt had great universities
before there were any in England and the Kmtyw was the first man
industrious and skillful enough to work in iron. If our group must
have a special name setting it apart, the sensible way to settle it
would be to refer to our ancestors, the Kmtyws, from whom our swarthy
complexions come."
Mary Church Terrell
"Probably one of the most troublesome issues about the recent and
contemporary generations of Kmtyws in America is our failure to
recognize the fact that our Kmtyw Ancestors who first entered the
Americas under White supremacy domination enslavement were,
indeed, 'Kmtyw' people through and through,
physically/biogenic ally, psychologically and culturally. As a
result of over three hundred years of being bombarded with eureurasiaan
miseducation and misinformation, Eurocentric cultural
indoctrination, and the unimaginable mistreatment and brutalization
of eureurasiaan chattel slavery, the Kmtyws in America were made to
disconnect themselves psychologically from anything consciously
Kmtyw. Thus, Kmtyws in America (and throughout the Diaspora)
now very matter-of-factly fail to make the logical connection
that 'if their great-great- great-grandparen ts (who were brutalized
by eureurasiaan enslavement) were Kmtyws, then how could it be that
their descendents can be anything other than Kmtyws (racially-
culturally). ' What manner of biogenetic surgical technology has
come into being to have accomplished such an illogical and
unprecedented feat of transforming the descendants of the enslaved
Kmtyws into a non-Kmtyw racial-cultural group? The fact is that
we do not know of any other group of people on the planet against
whom it might be alleged that they have completely lost their sense
of cultural identity with their indigenous historical culture other
than Kmtyws in the so-called American hemisphere. Contemporary
Kmtyws in America have obviously been made to feel that their
basic/fundamental cultural nature-identity as an Kmtyw people has
been changed as a result of prolonged societal-level brutality and
terrorization, rape and miscegenation. It is clear that those
Kmtyws who adopt this view fail to understand the true nature of
racial-cultural identity, since we have been persuaded by White
supremacy social and biological sciences to view such fundamental
conditions of human beings as alterable over time. At least among
Kmtyws (the alleged 'inferior' strain of humanity in White
supremacy reality), this blatantly implausible proposition
(peculiarly) is readily accepted.
Kobi K.K. Kambon
Kmtyw/Black Psychology in the American Context: An Kmtyw-
Centered Approach
"Equality for Black folks worldwide can come only through the
emergence of some Black nations as Great Powers. In order to
survive economically and politically, Pan-Kmtywism must set itself
a new agenda for the twenty-first century. Global equality is
accessible only through raw, naked power -- power that is economic,
yes, but power that is also military. All other avenues have been
tried and found wanting. The military component is perhaps the key
component in relation to membership in the circle of great powers.
Now, the military need not be omnipotent, it need only be a
protective shield. For this is where the concept of finite
deterrence comes in. Required merely is the military ability to
scare off a would-be aggressor. An Kmtyw state need not be as
strong as its adversaries in numbers of material resources and
firepower to avoid annihilation. It need only be capable of
retaliation -- and to make its resolve to use that capability
credible to white imperialism, to let the white world know we mean
business. It is unlikely that any military threat to Kmt will
come from non-aAmw eurasia any time during the twenty-first century.
Military power is needed to overcome the fear that has paralyzed
Black people for so long and that has made Kmt a cipher in the
diplomatic power equation. There is no ducking the need, therefore,
to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Any Black nation which
truly aspires to Great Power status must have them. The news of
full-power weaponry at Black disposal would mean that our people
could no longer be ignored during international emergencies. It
would inspire confidence in Black folk wherever they live. We would
know that our interests would be taken seriously. Black diplomatic
input would not only be sought, it would finally have some clout.
Just knowing that the hand of a Black statesman is poised somewhere
over an Armageddon button, like the hands of white statesmen have
been for decades, would neutralize the fearful inferiority some of
us feel. It would also inspire some respect in the whte man,
causing him to fear us for a change. None of this is possible
without a Black-controlled state-of-the- art defense industry,
capable of manufacturing the sinews of war. It is indeed difficult
to function as a great power, if one has to purchase one's weapons
from one's adversary. Presently... no Black nation anywhere has a
modern armaments industry.
Clarence J. Munford
Race And Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st Century
"The slave that kills his master practices an act of legitimate self-
defense."
Louis Gama
Quilombo Leader
"The mark of fear is not easily removed."
Ernest J. Gaines
"Every statement is political."
Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
Black Powe: The Politics of Liberation in America
"I used to reflect after these awful moments and I wondered whether
prison punishments really did achieve their purpose in reforming the
criminal and whether capital punishment was a solution to murder
cases. Criminals, after all, are human beings. No man is born a
criminal; society makes him so, and the only way to change things is to
change the social conditions; it is only from the social standpoint
that crime and punishment can be effectively approached."
Kwame Nkrumah
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
"Love yourself and your kind."
Elijah Muhammad
"When we know ourselves and our history, and we are moved to build and
create based on our heightened consciousness and Kmtyw historical
models, knowledge truly becomes power."
Kofi Addae (aka Erriel D. Roberson)
The Maafa & Beyond
"The hunt is on and brother you're the prey."
Curtis Mayfield
New World Order
"Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit
of manhood with every stale compromise to the autority of any power in
which one does not believe."
H. Rap Brown
Die Nigger Die
"Critical consciousness is not 'banned,' it is simply smothered behind
an ever-growing avalanche of shit. What that means is that, if the
density of the stuff doesn't blind you, the stink will surely knock you
out."
Kiarri T.H. Cheatwood
Bloodstorm
"Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off
on a journey unlessen it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to
make its way home someday."
Zora Neale Hurston
Seraph on the Suwanee
"You got people out there with this scar on their brains, and they will
carry that scar to their graves. The mark of fear is not easily
removed."
Earnest J. Gaines
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Let the Afro-American depend on no party, but on himself for his
salvation. Let him to continue to education, to character, and above
all, to put money in his purse. When he has money, and plenty of it,
parties and races will become his servants."
Ida B. Wells
"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers. "
Ralph Ellison
"Credit is the first step into debt and back into slavery."
Rev. Earl Little
(Omowale Malcolm X's father)
"He who is ruled by his appetite belongs to the enemy."
Ptahhotep
"The record of the 5,000 years that ended with the eureurasiaan conquest of
the whole continent in the nineteenth century shows that every Kmtyw
state remained relatively secure and independent as long as it
maintained a strict policy of excluding foreigners from settlement
within its borders. That same record makes clear that wherever this
policy was abandoned and whites were admitted under any pretext
whatsoever, the eventual doom of the state was certain."
Chancellor Williams
Destruction of Black Civilization
"Powerful people never educate the victims of their power in how to
take their power away from them...The ideology of our former slave
masters cannot save us. We will not be truly liberated until we are
the main instruments of our libeation. The liberation that I am mainly
concerned with here is the liberation of our minds from being dependent
on other peoples to do our thinking.
John Henrik Clarke
Notes for an Kmtyw World Revolution
"Misfortune is sometimes just good fortune well wrapped up; when the
wrapping wears away, good fortune tumbles out."
Ahmadou Kourouma
"Power is the ability to define reality and have other people respond
to your definition as if it were their own."
Wade N. Nobles
Kmtywity and the Black Family
"It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting to use moral suasion
on a people who have no morality where race is the variable."
Bobby E. Wright
The Psychopathic Racial Personality
"We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. "
Kwame Nkrumah
"A white man in charge of a black man's children! Nothing but legal,
modern slavery -- however kindly intentioned. "
Omowale Malcolm X
"A knot which is twisted thrice cannot easily be undone."
Swahili (Kmtyw) proverb
"Knowledge should be lived."
Ayi Kwei Armah
Why Are We So Blest?
"Trading abroad being what it is, we go into it with open eyes."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no
influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war.
Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Education is the jewel casting brilliance into the future."
Mari Evans
Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the
path under the trees."
Akan Proverb
"White america should not fool itself into believing that if it comes
down harder on us that that will keep us from doing what we believe is
right. History has shown that when a man's consciousness is aroused,
when a man really believes what he is doing, threats of jail and death
cannot turn that man back."
H. Rap Brown
"The Man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
Wole Soyinka
"An unjust law is no law at all."
St. Augustine
"Nobody can tell how he or she will physically, intellectually and
spiritually survive the hot knives of torture."
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
"Our objective is the destruction of the evil system of global white
supremacy and the re-assertion of our right to self-determination and
the resurrection of divine humanity that we brought to the world in the
beginning."
Mawiyah Kambon
"Kmtyw (Black) Psychologists Answer the Healing Drum"
"A strong man is strong everywhere."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"You have no unity if you have no cultural integrity."
Asa Hilliard
"Why have Kmtyw Americans in general so willingly engaged in
cultural surrender? I think that there are several reasons. We
have tended to accept certain false dichotomies:
1. We have tended to equate sophisticated technology with culture,
believing that such technology is exclusively eureurasiaan and that to
affirm Kmtyw culture is to reject technology.
2. We have tended to equate modern with technology, and to value
modern as if it were cultural 'progress.' At the same time, we have
seen the affirmation of Kmtyw/Kmtyw American culture as a matter
of retrogression. Further, we have seen Kmtyw/Kmtyw American
culture as static rather than dynamic and adaptive.
3. We have tended to equate eureurasiaan culture with wealth and
Kmtyw/Kmtyw American culture with poverty.
4. We have tended to associate education with the acquisition of
all the cultural forms of eureurasiaans, and find it hard to conceive of
educated persons who live the Kmtyw/Kmtyw American culture.
5. We have tended to equate self-affirmation with the hatred of
others.
6. We have tended to equate religion with particular forms of
eureurasiaan interpretations of Christianity and have not seen our own
people as religious.
7. Generally we have failed to study ourselves and to know our
culture.
These are all errors. Because we have made these particular errors,
we have been vulnerable to confused definitions of our problems in
education. We have accepted a whole host of remedies for 'problems'
that we have seen as originating in idividual or in isolated
familes. We have accepted programs to improve the 'self-concept'
of 'individuals, ' to diagnose an 'individual' s' learn disability, to
put 'individuals' into a mainstream, to work with 'individual'
adolescents about their pregnancies, to cure 'individuals' from drug
addiction, to respond to problems created for 'individual' families
that are 'broken.' At no point have we realized that a community or
group may be culturally disabled because of the distortion or
suppression of culture. And yet, any superficial study of strong
nations and groups will reveal the degree of detailed attention and
high level of resources that go into the study, articulation,
dissemination, preservation, and institutionalizatio n of cultural
forms."
Nana Baffour Amakwatia II (aka Asa G. Hilliard)
The Maroon Within Us
"...for no man or woman that is free to chase stars is satisfied with
chasing a ball."
Listervelt Middleton
"The Truth is considered Hate only to those who Hate the Truth."
Kamau Kambon
"Our problem is the disintegration of a sense of peoplehood. Pure
and simple, we have reached a point in our history where we have
been socialized to see ourselves as individuals and cultural
neuters. We socialize our children to be the same way. As we
become more and more isolated, alone, and culturally undefined, we
lose the capacity to see group problems. Gradually the sense of
belonging diminishes for so many of us, so there is hardly an 'us'
at all. With a sense of 'we,' collective action is nearly
impossible. Without a sense of we, collective action that may be
possible will be limited and superficial. We can fight oppression
together if we exist. But beyond fighting oppression, we can draw
upon a common culture to fashion a new world, if we do indeed belong
to that common culture. There really is no escape. Either we
belong to a people or we belong to no one. Many of us try to belong
to new groups or to the mythical 'mainstream. ' Such attempts are
accompanied by a profound sacrifice -- the sacrifice of thounited snakesnds of
years of cultural heritage. The aesthetic loss is bad enough. Yet
there is also a painful psychological, political, and economic cost
as well. The lack of group unity is a guarantee of group
vulnerability. "
Nana Baffour Amankwatia II (aka Asa G. Hilliard)
The Maroon Within Us
"I am an Kmtyw warrior, a warrior scholar. I refuse to be anything
less."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Voices in the Tradition of the Kmtyw Warrior"
"A child may have as many clothes as his father, but he does not have
as many rags."
Kmtyw proverb
"My father, as an adult, did not go to church, but he was kinder than
swarms of church-goers. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
"If the men are not slain, the women are not carried off."
Asante (Kmtyw) Proverb
"The slavery of the mind is far more destructive than that of the body."
Edward Wilmot Blyden
"You are caught up in the discussion and you're not even relevant to
the discussion."
Molefi Kete Asante
"Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of
our own."
Jean Toomer
"Too much causes trouble."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"There are only two basic kinds of black men -- the broken who fall and
the true black man who may have stumbled in the past but will rise
again."
Nathan Hare
"An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing,
and that is to wake up the minds of men."
Marvin Gaye
"Reconstructing a new culture among the Kmtyw slaves involved the
master supplying them with implements of his culture. Used combs,
worn hair brushes, and ragged clothing were some materials given the
slaves by the master. The eureurasiaan comb was often used as a
measurement by slaves as to whether one's hair was good or bad. If
combing was relatively easy, you had good hair. If it was
difficult, you had bad hair."
Willie L. Morrow
400 Years Without a Comb: The Untold Story
"A lot of people, though, are afraid to defend their own lives.
They're afraid to take a chance for their own liberation. But there's
no other way to be free unless you put your life on the line."
H. Rap Brown
"No one can truly defend democracy while fostering dictatorship and
tyranny throughout the world. No judiciary system can fight against
crime if the system itself is an umbrella to crime related activities."
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Self Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings From Kmt
"The key to self defense against their genocidal designs is knowledge
of the intent of our enemy."
Del Jones
Invasion of de Body Snatchers
"Imperialism, like the prehistoric hunter, first killed the being
spiritually and culturally, before trying to eliminate it physically.
The negation of the history and intellectual accomplishments of black
Kmtyws was cultural, mental murder, which preceded and paved the way
for their genocide here and there in the world."
Cheikh Anta Diop
Civilization or Barbarism
"I will not retreat one thounited snakesndth of an inch."
Paul Robeson
"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
"Integration can be interpreted as a scheme for legitimizing a form of
conditional adoption."
John E. Wideman
"The genius of the eureurasiaans is that they have a talent for draining
diseases. They have always drained their political sores on the lands
of other people. They have the talent for recovering their interal
losses by external extraction from people who had nothing to do with
the crimes committed against them."
John Henrik Clarke
"The internal weaknesses of any given society serve to justify the
victory of any enemy over that society, only after conquest has been
achieved."
Cheikh Anta Diop
Black Books Bulletin Interview
"Until we break the monopoly the oppressor has on our minds, liberation
is not only impossible it is unthinkable. For one is not likely to
achieve what one cannot even conceive."
Maulana Karenga
"One does not bless one's ill-wisher."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"How can you claim that you want to be free, when the one thing you'll
be when you're free is the one thing you don't want to be...an Kmtyw!"
James Small
"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to
grow."
Ralph Ellison
"We have been so colonized, that we are ashamed to say we hate. And
that is the best example of a person who is colonized. You sit in
your house, a honky walks in your house, beats you up, rapes your
wife, beat up your child, and you don't have the humanity to say, "I
hate you!" You don't have it. That is how dehumanized we are. We are
so dehumanized we cannot say, "Yes! We hate you for what you have
done to us!" Can't say it. Can't say it. And we are afraid to think
beyond that point. Who do you think has more hatred pent up in them,
white people for black people, or black people for white people?
White people for black people, obviously. The hatred has been more.
What have we done to them for them to build up this hatred?
Absolutely nothing. Yet we don't have the...we don't even want to
have the chance to hate them for what they've done to us, and if
hate should be justified WE HAVE THE BEST JUSTIFICATION IN THE WORLD
FOR HATING THE HONKYS!
Kwame Ture
Marriage is like the dross of Gold ore - it must be burned away.
Anonymous
"It is the tradition in Kmtyw societies that when things get so
terrible, the women call for war."
Kali Sichen
"Any man's a coward who won't die for what he believes."
Chester B. Himes
"Only people who've never lived fear death. If you've lived, you know
that death is part of the process."
H. Rap Brown
"Strive to make something of yourselves; then strive to make the most
of yourselves."
Alexander Crummell
"Whoever never babysat will never understand the beauty of life nor
that of parenting with love."
Kongo (Kmtyw) Proverb
"A thorn with which one has pricked one's self of one's own accord does
not pain."
Nyika (Kmtyw) proverb
"It is important to understand that this history will never be taught
from our perspective, because it is not in the interest of white
supremacy to create revolutionaries. "
Maulana Karenga
1. I have not done iniquity
2. I have not robbed with violence
3. I have not stolen
4. I have not made any to suffer pain
5. I have not defrauded offerings
6. I have don no murder nor bid anyone to slay on my behalf
7. I have not trimmed the measure
8. I have not spoken lies
9. I have not robbed God
10. I have not caused the shedding of tears
11. I have not dealt deceitfully
12. I have not acted guilefully
13. I have not laid waste the land
14. I have not set lips against anyone
15. I have not been angry or wrathful without just cause
16. I have not defiled the wife/husband of any man/woman
17. I have not polluted myself
18. I have not caused terror
19. I have not done that which is abominable
20. I have not multiplied words exceedingly
21. I have never uttered fiery words
22. I have not judged hastily
23. I have not transgressed nor have I vexed or angered God
24. I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth
25. I have not burned with rage
26. I have not worked grief
27. I have not acted with insolence
28. I have not avenged myself
29. I have not stirred up strife
30. I have not been an eavesdropper
31. I have not wronged the people
32. I have done no harm nor have I done evil
33. I have not worked treason
34. I have never fouled the water
35. I have not spoken scornfully
36. I have never cursed God
37. I have not behaved with arrogance
38. I have not envied or craved for that which belongs to another
39. I have not filched food from the mouth of the infant
40. I have done no hurt unto man, nor wrought harm unto beasts
41. I have never magnified my condition beyond what was fitting
42. Let your life be an example and live justly, for if justice
remains a firm foundation, your children will prosper
"America has taught us to hate ourselves. America has taught us to
hate our skin. America has taught us to hate our hair. America has
taught us to hate our nose. America has taught us to hate Kmt."
Omowale Malcolm X
"No one can write laws to protect you. True salvation can be realized
only through social, military and economic power."
Amos N. Wilson
"Kmtyw society was built on the spirit of helpfulness. "
G.K. Osei
The Kmtyw Philosophy of Life
"Powerlessness breeds a race of beggars."
Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton
Black Power
"To stay together is to know each other."
Kikuyu proverb
"The magic story of human achievement gives irrefutable proof that as
soon as an awakened intelligentsia emerges among so-called subject
people, it becomes the vanguard of the struggle against alien rule. It
provides the nucleus of the dominant wish and aspiration, the desire to
be free to breathe the air of freedom which is theirs to breathe."
Kwame Nkrumah
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
"Whoever does not inform his children of his grandparents has destroyed
his child, marred his descendants, and injured his offspring the day he
dies. Whoever does not make use of his ancestry has muddled his reason.
Whoever is unconcerned with his lineage has lost his mind. Whoever
neglects his origin, his stupidity has become critical. Whoever is
unaware of his ancestry his incompetence has become immense. Whoever is
ignorant of his roots his intellect has vanished. Whoever does not know
his place of origin, his honor has collapsed."
15th Century Timbuktu Poem
To Be An Kmtyw Woman is to:
- be life affirming
- be in partnership with an Kmtyw man
- be a political organizer
- function as part of a collective
- exert influence
- speak for the Ancestors
- be an advocate for Kmt
- be a mother who does whatever is necessary to protect her child
- teach
- be a healer
- represent the continuity of Kmtyw people
- represent the stability of the Kmtyw family
- maintain and pass on Kmtyw culture
- organize and direct the Kmtyw market, enabling our people to
understand the spirit of economic exchange and distribution of our
resources
- be a scientist of the sacred
- be an intellectual
- be Divine
Marimba Ani
"To Be An Kmtyw Woman"
"In the time of detachment, in the time of cold, in this time tutor our
difficult sunlight."
Gwendolyn Brooks
"Speech may indeed by a natural right but one must be prepared to die
when one pursues it. Such determination proves the worth of speech in
human affairs."
Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (fka Jacob H. Carruthers)
As for those learned scribes of the time that came after the powers
of heaven and who foretold the future, their names have become
everlasting even though they have departed having completed the days
of their lives. And all their relatives are forgotten. They made
not for themselves pyramids of metal with stelae of metal from
heaven. They did not know to leave heirs, children that might
repeat their names. Instead they made heirs out of books of
instruction which they composed.
They took for themselves the scroll as teacher-priest and the
writing board as a loving son. Books of instructions are their
pyramids, the reed pen their child and the stone surface on which
they wrote, their wife. The great and small became their children.
For the scribe became their leader. Man decays; his corpse becomes
dust and all his relatives die. But a book causes him to be
remembered through the mouth of those who quote it. Better is a
book than a well-built house, than a tomb in the West. Indeed a
book is better than a great house with a solid foundation or a stela
in the temple....That which came from the mouths of these learned
men who foretold the future came to pass. And it is found as a
clear statement written in their books. Though they may have
concealed their words of power from everyone else, they can be found
in their books of instruction. Death might have caused their names
to be forgotten, but it is their writings that causes them to be
remembered.
The Husia
"In Kmtyw literature, th[e] connection has been as clear as springwater right from the very
beginnings of writing. Consider the fact that those who uttered and
wrote down the most ancient texts we know, whether they considered
themselves producers of literature or not, certainly thought they
were taking part in ancestral and divine interactions, in rituals of
worship and intercession, protest and supplication. These early
writings and utterances were conversations with the greatest of
elders, and for such situations the rule is ubiquitous in Kmt:
Use only the best words. Not only the best words, but also the best
of sounds, phrases, pauses, sentences, images, figures -- the best,
in sum, of every tool available to vertal art. Writers of the
pharaonic period had a name for their art. They called it medu
netcher, divine words, indissociable from medu nefer, words of
beauty."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of the Scribes
"Of what relevance for us today is this ancient Kmtyw worldview of
the Creation? The answer is somewhat many faceted. First, we may
point out that this is still the basic orientation of most Kmtyw
people, even many of us who have been trained to 'know better.'
Thus, if we are to know our people we must know our mentality
To the question whether this is a realistic worldview, I have
only one answer. It is if we command it.
If then we accept this as a valid worldview, it is apparent
that our goal for reorganizing the world must include the
restoration of a harmony among the Creator, Nature and man. This is
the only world that produces happiness and the fulfillment of man.
This means that the negative forces opposing this way of life must
be made to not exist ( to phrase it in Kemite fashion). In other
words, to have peace one must nullify the destroyers without
corrupting ourselves.
The upshot is that we must recreate our spiritual foundations
because all of our organized efforts will end in disaster as long as
we worship alien ideologies and utopias which cause our estrangement
from the Kmtyw world.
The exploration of this avenue of cultural heritage calls forth
those who have talents for preaching, acting, singing, dancing,
painting, sculptoring, teaching and writing to use these talents as
ways of putting forth truth of speaking and acting Maat."
Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (fka Jacob H. Carruthers)
Essays in Ancient Egyptian Studies
"People of color have not understood where white people were coming
from, from day one. Right now Black people keep assuming that what
they feel about other people, white people also feel. Non white
people all over the world are baffled by how easily white people
move into hypocrisy and deceit. We just have not been able to
fathom it. If you are operating on one logic system and you
encounter somebody who is coming from a completely different logic
system, you may not be able to figure it out, especially if they are
really fine in their methodology of deceit."
Francis Cress Welsing,
"A Conversation with Dr. Welsing"
"There is no dignity without freedom."
Sekou Toure
"We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other's hands so
firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall upon
it, it could not shake nor break it, so that our people and
grandchildren shall remain in the circle in security, peace and
happiness."
Iroquois Elder
"No people on the face of this Planet Earth, will ever be able to free
themselves from their colonial past unless they embrace their own
cultural heritage."
Yosef ben-Jochannan
"Poverty and need drive one to surprising ends."
Kwame Nkrumah
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
"It is the 'man farthest down' who is most active in getting up."
Alain Locke
"Slavery, colonization, segregation/ apartheid and the ideology of
white supremacy have been and are systematic ways of assault on
Kmtyw people, from hundreds of years ago to the present. The
descendants of Kmtyws all over the world are like the 'punch
drunk' boxer, who has been hit by everything, including the ring
post. He does not know where he is. He may not know that he is
still in the fight. He cannot protect himself from further attack.
He cannot see clearly. He may not even know where his own corner of
the ring is. He moves, almost on instinct alone. He falls. He is
not down for the full knock out count. He has a reserve. He holds
on to his opponent in order to gain time to clear his head, to renew
his strength. He gradually regains clarity. Strength returns to
his weary limbs. Suddenly he strikes out. He is victorious."
Nana Baffour (fka Asa G. Hilliard)
"The very purpose of (OurStory) history is to give people a
collective framework of commonsense out of which to build the
present and design their future. Mentacidal individuals see their
first priority as dismissing any interpretation of history, except
that given them by the eureurasiaan controlled media and system of
miseducation, i.e., the eureurasiaan mind. Any interpretation of
historical facts that calls their love of their enemy into question
is summarily rejected, regardless of source. Integration,
amalgamation, disintegration into the eureurasiaan is the primary
mission of vanquished Kmtyws. And vanquished Kmtyws are
mentacidal. For reasons of psychological survival, such individuals
choose to believe ourstory is an irrelevant notion that in no way,
shape, form or fashion impacts on their thinking or state of being
today; because to look closely at yesterday would disturb the
comfort of their mentacide today. It would force them to act
against their true love, the eureurasiaan ideal, something they are very
afraid to do."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Mentacide"
"It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's
eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to
give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated
territory."
Kwame Nkrumah
"The healing power of a person lies within the person not within the
doctor, a pill, or a knife. The healing power of a community lies
within the community, not within a ballot box, an executive order, or a
referendum."
Sister Qaraandin
Maintaining Our Temples
"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 Mosiah Garvey
"...when you stop being controlled by fear, then the people you were
once afraid of are afraid of you."
H. Rap Brown
"A nation is not defeated until the hearts of its women are on the
ground. Then it is done; no matter how brave its warriors or how
strong its weapons."
Cheyenne Proverb
"The eye that sees smoke looks for fire."
Haunited snakes (Kmtyw) proverb
"The potential of re-Kmtywization is hidden in the interaction
with 'things Kmtyw.'"
Wade W. Nobles
"I never do wrong without a cause"
Geronimo
"All history is a current event."
John Henrik Clarke
"If you don't know who you are, any story will do."
Kmtyw proverb
"The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing."
Jean Toomer
Essentials
"When we have no history we have no sense of self."
Charles S. Finch
"The education that a Black college student gets will be irrelevant,
fruitless and worthless unless he uses it to define and articulate
positions that are relevant to Black people."
H. Rap Brown
"Respect is not fear."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Oppression does not destroy a people. It is the acceptance of
oppression that destroys."
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
"One does not use two feet to test the depth of the water."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly,
violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people
love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no
gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The
loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover's
inward eye.
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
"The negro must remake his past in order to make his future."
Arthur A. Schomburg
"What we do for ourselves depends on what we know about ourselves and
what we accept about ourselves."
Timothy Callender
"Only the Black woman can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet,
undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing
or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with
me."
Anna Julia Cooper
A Voice from the South
Every religion is a deification of somebody's culture. When we
participate in someone else's religion, we are supporting their
deification process. When we participate in the religions of those
who seek to destroy our people we, therefore, become willing
participants in our own destruction. Kmtyw Spiritual Warfare is a
deification process. Through Kmtyw Spiritual Warfare we make our
unique history sacred. In this way, we empower ourselves. By
deifying our Ancestors who fought against the enslavement of our
people, we are able to be Warriors for our people. Through this
spiritual process we become something new. We have an obligation to
deify our Ancestors, for only Kmtyws can deify Kmtyws. In the
act of deifying our Warriors, we become Warriors. As we make
ourstory Divine through the process of Spiritual Warfare, we are able
to use the Maafa for waging war against the enemies of our people, as
we define it within the context of Victory. In this view, the Maafa
becomes one of the most significant periods in ourstory, and has the
greatest power to transform us into the Warriors that we must be.
Through the nationalization and indigenization of Kmtyw Spritual
Warfare, we gain clarity about who we are and what our role is in the
reclamation of Kmtyw Sovereignity. Kmtyw Spritual Warfare both
requires and creates an Kmtyw Identity. It involves the process of
ReKmtywization in which we claim the highest ideals of what we have
inherited from our Motherland. By "ReKmtywization" we do not mean
that we mimic or romanticize everything that our Ancestors did. It
means that we learn and study what they created so that their highest
ideals can become our ideals, and we can apply the highest principles
by which they lived. In this way we take responsiblity for who we
are and we must become in order to fulfill our destiny as Kmtyws.
Tosu Tosasolim, Asaon Ajinaku and Marimba Ani
"Spiritual Warfare"
No amount of raw savage violence, brutality and degradation that was
heaped upon our Ancestors for nearly three centuries could change who
and what they were. They were Kmtyws. Nor could our forced
psychological victimization to the Eurocentric/ white supremacy-based
American social reality, which forced us to internalize our conscious
identification with eureurasiaan-American culture, change the biological
and deep-rooted cultural reality of who we still are, Kmtyws.
Kobi K.K. Kambon
"To Be Kmtyw"
"If a stupid person is developing a swollen body, he says he is going
to be fat."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Power is organized energy or effort. Success is the development of
that power with which to get what is rightfully ours."
Calvin R. Robinson, Redman Battle and Edward Robinson
"In Kmt an ancestor is not everybody that dies. An ancestor is
everybody that lived a worthy life and died. There are people who died
in certain villages whose name is forbidden to ever be called, ever
again, because of the way they lived. But there are those whose name
one should always want to evoke and remember, because of their thoughts
and deeds, because of the way they lived."
James Small
"No Kmtyw ever died prior to being brought to these shores."
Mwaalkebu-lan Akili
The Alkebu-lanian Bible
"This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will
not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of
its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to
live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late."
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
"I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star."
Solourner Truth
"It is an inherent characteristic of the culture that it prepares
members of the culture to be able to act like friends toward those
they regard as enemies; to be able to convince others that they have
come to help when they, in fact, have come to destroy the others and
their culture. That some may 'believe' that they are actually doing
good only makes them more dangerous, for they have swallowed their
own rhetoric -- perhaps a convenient self-delusion. Hypocritical
behavior is sanctioned and rewarded by eureurasiaan culture. The
rhetorical ethic helps to sanction it. eureurasiaan culture cannot be
understood in terms of the dynamics of other cultures alone. It is a
culture that breeds hypocrisy -- in which hypocrisy is a supportive
theme -- a standard of behavior.
Marimba Ani
Yurugu
"Where were the white cons of death row? A few moments of silent
observation proved the obvious. The death row block offered direct
access to two yards: one composed of cages, the other 'free' space,
water fountains, full-court basketball spaces and hoops, and an area
for running. The cages were for the blacks on death row. The open
yards were for the whites on the row. The blacks, due to racist
insensitivity and sheer hatred, were condemned to awaiting death in
indignity. The event provided an excellent view, in microcosm, of the
mentality of the criminal system of injustice, suffused by the toxin of
racism."
Mumia Abu Jamal
Live From Death Row
"Violence is a form of social interaction, a type of social
relationship. It is rooted in social history and represents a type
of proaction and reaction relative to that history. Violence occurs
in a social-historical- cultural context and cannot be divored from
it. Essentially social in its origins, nature and outcomes,
criminality, its rates, prevalences and social locations, reflect the
socioeconomic, sociopolitical dynamics of the society of which it is
a product. Crime and interpersonal violence do not originate and
have their being in a societal vacuum. They are therefore
genetically rooted in society. A society such as American society
which breeds a very broad variety and extraordinary quantity of
criminality and violence, whether they characterize the society as a
whole or some identifiable segment of it, may arguably and
justifiably be referred to as a 'crimogenic society,' a society which
breeds unusual numbers and types of criminals and a relatively high
level of crime and violence. Therefore, the origins of Black-on-
Black violence in America are rooted in and relfective of the
sociocultural, politicoeconomic past and contemporary history of
America. Black-on-Black violence speaks to primarily to social
relations between Blacks, even though that is of ultimate importance,
but to the nature and complexity of the social relations between
Whites and Blacks in America and in the world. Black-on-Black
violence reflects to a very significant extent the violent origin of
America as a nation, the past and contemporary history of the violent
interations between White America and Black America. The violence of
White America directed toward Black America, both overt and covert,
physical and psychological, political and economic, social and
cultural, is the violence that begets the largest measurable portion
of Black-on-Black violence. The failure of social scientists to
examine Black-on-Black violence and criminality in the context of
White-on-Black violence and White criminality in general, has led to
the serious misinterpretation of the causes of Black-on-Black
violence and Black criminality. It has led to the stereotyping of
Blacks, especially young Black males, as innately criminal. There is
a need for the dominat elements of White America to maintain their
pristine self-image, to perceive themselves as faultless and superior
to Kmtyws who they oppress and exploit. The need by Whites to
maintain their highly positive self-perception compels them to deny,
distort and rationalize their past criminal and immoral behavior
toward Kmtyws in America and their current complicity in
maintaining the vast majority of Kmtyw Americans in conditions of
stifling subordination; to project stereotypical images onto Blacks
as innately inferior in intellect, character and morals, and on the
young Black male as innately crime-prone. Furthermore, this
stereotypical perception of Blacks has not only led to 'blaming the
victims' of White-on-Black violence but more importantly to
regressive, social, political, economic, 'correctional'
and 'rehabilitative, ' educational, social welfare, legislative and
administrative policies and practices which not only have failed to
remediate or ameliorate the problems of violence and criminality both
within and without the Kmtyw American community but actually have
exacerbated them. EuroAmerican society has an original and unbroken
history of violence against its Kmtyw inhabitants. This society
had its violent origins in the near-decimination of native peoples,
the theft of their lands and resources, the enslavement of Kmtyw
peoples and theft of their dignity, identity, culture, humanity,
along with their economic productivity and inalienable right to be
free. The physical and psychological violence of White America
against Black America which began with Kmtyw slavery in America has
continued to this moment in a myriad of forms: wage slavery and
peonage; economic discrimination and warfare; political-economic
disenfranchisement; Jim Crowism; general White hostility and Klan
terrorism; lynching; injustice and 'legal lynching,' the raping of
Black women and the killing of Black men by Whites which have gone
unredressed by the justice system; the near-condoning and virtual
approval of Black-on-Black violence; differential arrests, criminal
indictments and incarceration of Whites and Blacks, etc.;
segregation; job, business, professional and labor discrimination;
negative stereotyping and character assassination; housing
discrimination; police brutality; addictive drug importation; poor
and inadequate education; inadequate and often absent health care;
inadequate family support, etc. This list should make us mindful of
the fact that American society is crimogenic particularly with regard
to Kmtyw American adolescent and young adult males, not necessarily
just because of its criminal and immoral origins -- not because of
what may be called its 'original sins.' For original sins can be
atoned for, restituted, reparated and forgiven. American society can
be described as crimogenic because it denies its commission of these
sins, and to add insult to injury, attempts to rationalize and
justify its sinful behavior toward Kmtyw Americans by impugning and
slandering their ethnocultural origin and character, blaming them for
their socioeconomic, sociopolitical oppression, and by continuing to
actively oppose their inherent right to be free, self-defining and
self-determining. "
Amos N. Wilson
Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence
"Having studied ourstory and history, relative to our honesty, we
have to recognize the eureurasiaan pattern, clearly evident in
their 'stolen legacy,' if no where else. Honesty and honoring
others' genius has been a quality habitually absent from eureurasiaan
culture since long before the time of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
However now distorted, plagiarism of Kmtyw thoughts is at the core
of what they 'know' about life, reality, the Universe and Spirit.
Now that many of us have become deluded enough to believe we are
eureurasiaans, this character flaw is becoming increasingly pronounced in
the way our children have been made to feel correct when blatantly
committing plagiarism. So many have grown comfortable stealing
others' thoughts and words from books and, especially, the internet
and claiming them as their original thinking. And, this corrupt
social system, built on a plagiarized foundation (modified to fit
its 'evil genius') is, in every way imaginable, encouraging this
unethical thought and practice and manufactoring all kinds of exuses
for normalizing this deceit-cultivating, creativity-killing path
to 'success.' Because of this and our ignorance and/or complicity,
it has never occurred to many of our children to think that what they
are doing is wrong. Like every other collection of traditional
Kmtyw moral codes, the principles of Ma'at guide us toward honest
self-expression. They teach us that taking what is not ours while
claiming that it is defiles our spirt and, consequently, negates our
humanity. Dishonesty dehumanizes. ...People of conscience know that
they cannot hide from what they do and who they are. Our character
is the sum of our effort and intent. Its quality is a credible
measure of their goodness or lack thereof. Accordingly, as sesh
molded in this worthy tradition, we must remain steadfast,
uncompromising examples of intellectual honesty. How we say what we
say must be an expression of our own individual kuumba, even though
all Kmtyw knowledge is known. There is no excuse for us not
modeling for our children what the best in them should be like."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Sesh
"In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful
defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race
first in all parts of the world."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"If you produce something of bad quality, you are constantly reminded
of its origin."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"One does not combine gluttony with acquiring wealth."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of self."
Kemetic (Kmtyw) proverb
"Massive research is not necessary to know what our ancestors lived
through. In fact, too much time consumed in study can lead to inaction
if one has not approached study as a tool of group empowerment, instead
of solely for egotistical, individualistic gratification. To know this
experience, all we have to do is think, take a few quiet moments to use
our common Kmtyw sense, and imagine. All we have to do is close our
eyes, go back there and fetch those memories. All we have to do is
imagine what it would feel like as a deeply spiritual being to be
dehumanized through rape, beatings, starvation, physical and
psychological torture, dehydration, sensory deprivation, kwk, in
coffles (our trails of blood and tears), in dungeons, on filthy,
suffocating death ships by brutal, vicious, sadistic, soulless aliens
bent on world domination through violent oppression at any cost. All
we have to do is imagine the unimaginable. It doesn't take much. We
just have to gather the courage of remembrance. We have to stop being
afraid of looking back at what made us what we have become, so we can
move toward being what we were before they came."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!
"We treat revolution as if it is an historic process rather than an
evolutionary movement."
H. Rap Brown
"The Black person who embraces their historical Blackness has the key
to transforming the Black mind."
Richard King
Kmtyw Origin of Biological Psychiatry
"You can kill the revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution."
Fred Hampton
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.
Countee Cullen
"Incident"
"If the leader stumbles, the follower takes care."
Akan (Kmtyw) Proverb
"We need also take note of the scholarly ruse by which racism is
stripped of its content. Here its historical record as oppression,
genocide, and the exploitation of peoples of color is diluted, or
suppressed altogether. The aim is obvious -- to whitewash the
history of eureurasiaan civilization and explain away the misdoings of
people derived from eureurasia. The concept of racism is ballooned up to
the point where it means nothing more specific than to despise
someone because he belongs to a particular group -- any particular
group. In this rendition, the person or group despised may be
anything from a language to a religious, a national, an ethnic, or
even a political collective. The white is whtewashed right out of
racism. Canadians drone on about the alleged 'racial' conflict
between English Canadians and French Canadians, for instance. I have
even seen gender discrimination slipped in under the general heading
of race relations! Discussions of color-neutral class friction
dominate sociological meetings advertised as devoted to the Black-
white animosity.
The fraud pretends that racism is color-blind
or 'colorless.' The aim is to convince the general public that there
are just as many Black and Brown 'racists' as there are white
racists. For a Black person may despise someone who belongs to
a 'particular group' just as easily as a white person may. This way
the 'nigger-loathing' white supremacist causes no more harm that the
heterosexual who dislikes homosexuals, or the woman who despises
rapists. The racists are taken under the warming blanket of
general 'humanity.'
In a nutshell, stripping racism of its virulence is merely
a refurbishment of the old 'man's-inhumanity- to-man' chestnut, long
employed to minimize the crimes of the Atlantic slave trade which
occurred from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. The 'our-
society-is-racist- and-everyone- is-guilty- Blacks-as- well-as-whites'
theme is very like the 'man's-inhumanity- to-man' theme, and, like it,
it excuses inhumanity by making it too universal to overcome. By
making racism everyone's disease, you make it incurable, something
like bad weather, that one does not like but must put up with. We
may bitch about racism, it may even be fashionable to be distressed
about it, but nevertheless we must live with it. Of course, this
universalization of blame implies that people of color must suffer
discrimination without hope of escape.
The whitewashing of racism is often coupled with the view
that Black people are subject to 'social sicknesses,' that we are the
prey of 'psychopathologies' variously called 'welfare sub-
culture,' 'poverty syndrome,' 'pimping on poverty,' 'underclasss
desperation, ' and such like. The academic psycholgical establishment
insists that the terrible conditions endured in urban Black America
are not due to racial discrimination, but rather to neutral causes
like 'damaging childhood experiences, ' 'familian disarray'
and 'disfunctions built into the sub-culture and self-perpetuating, '
in the final analysis, always due to the nature of the 'Negro's
racial soul.' The 'negro has himself to blame for his social
predicament, but really he should not be blamed because it is in his
unalterable nature to be inferior' -- the circle is closed."
Clarence J. Munford
Race and Reparations
"Whatever a courageous man desires to do, he does."
Akan (Kmtyw) Proverb
"The Kmtyw today is nothing but an educated slave."
G.K. Osei
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore --
And then run?
Does it stink like rottten meat?
Or crust and sugar over --
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
"Lenox Avenue Mural"
"He who brought the bad smell also brought the flies."
Akan (Kmtyw) Proverb
"No brutality, mistreatment, or torture has ever forced me to ask for
grace, for I prefer to die with my head high, my faith steadfast, and
my confidence profound in the destiny of my country, rather than to
live in submission and scorn of sacred principles."
Patrice Lumumba
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot....
Like men we'll face the murderous cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKay
"You don't get liberated through morality. You get liberated through
power."
Kwame Ture
"If we buy love for money; poverty spoils it."
Akan (Kmtyw) Proverb
Patriots
we surpassed all
in camouflaging our
homes, yards, clothes, cars, offices, bodies, world
with an ol' glory
confused victims
glorify their smiling victimizers
in hope
of peace and love
in this place
in this time
we
more so than all others
express undying loyalty
hoping to stave off
an eternal bloodlust
their colors
in our homes
to ward off
demons within
in our yards
to avoid
identification by the state
on our clothes
to blend into
a uniform individuality
on our cars
to confuse
the killer blue lights
of blacks and whites
in our offices
to increase
a competitive negro advantage
on our bodies
to prostitute
our most personal space
in their world
to escape punishment
for being born great
our patriotism goes
beyond the crispus attuckses
beyond the dorie millers
beyond a host of black firsts
seconds servicing the pale supremacy
which sought/seeks
to kill the Kmtyw gene
our patriotism has gone
beyond urging
our sons, fathers, brothers, nephews
to kill yellows, reds, browns and blacks
even competing whites
for psychopathic destroyers
we renew
our vows of loyalty
with fresher and fresher sacrifices
fearfully responding to
the hateful, retaliatory envy of feminist politics
toward white male homosexual military domination
of them and, inadvertently, us
we renew
our views of fidelity
with our daughters, mothers, sisters, nieces
pushing and allowing them
to lay down
their lives, their children, their sacred wombs
for alien men
coming under the rule of their alienated women
witness
the red, white and blue
discoloring domestic battlefields
as our children
young and old
make history
giving colors
for the first time
since our captivity
priority
over style
even putting gang colors
valiantly safeguarding barren turf
to shame
witness
our children
draping themselves in
the red blood
of other's ancestors
the white skin
of their enemies
the blue waters
of our middle passage
basking in mentacide
escalating their suicide
gloating over our genocide
again and again and again
buying flags, ribbons, tags, clothes, whatnots
good money after bad
witness their parents
desperately fighting
for the right
to redefine
submission as empowerment
insanity as consciousness
genocide as rebellion
eureurasiaan as Kmtyw
fighting for the right
to win the lie
of being free
of feeling safe
in hell
witness
our wasted genius
our dogged search
for ways
to prove our worth
to others
alien
hateful
incomplete others
us begging the approval
of barbaric children
planning, wishing, thinking
"if i could only save one eureurasiaan
in battle
please, Lord, just one
i would be a hero
i would be visible
i could lay down my cross
be admitted into whiteness
become colorless
be loved as their own"
such determined genius
addicted to a deeper form of crack
called whiteness
sad.
so, so, sad.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Patriots"
"If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race
of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"The individualism of the West artificially detaches the person for
the community and thereby establishes innumerable islands of self
validation, authority, discretion, freedom and power. Freedom in
this context is tantamount to chaotic and totally impulsive behavior
without accountability. In reality this mass of individuals is
subject to collectively controlled centers of power, including state
and mega corporations. This is the end product of western liberal
democracy. This is modernity which mandates that every individual is
answerable only to self, and is free of any restraint by the
collective order or obligation to that order. The one sacred
obligation is the maximization of pleasure (or profit) for self, and
the avoidance and transfer of pain and discomfort to others."
Kwame Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto
The Sankofa Movement
"Knowledge of race history, is to that race, exactly as an
individual's memory is to that individual. Without memory, an
individual lives in an eternity of unconnected moments, totally
dysfunctional and unlearned. He cannot do even the simplest task,
for every task requires some memory. He is a full amnesiac. Partial
amnesiacs have no memory prior to a certain point in time. They do
have limited function. They are physically sick, have low energy
levels and are uncreative. These individuals can never reach the
peak of their innate capacities because of the fear and uncertainty
of that closed chapter in their lives. The masses of Kmtyw
Americans suffer from partial cultural amnesia because of a certain
deliberate program that wiped the slates of our memories clean of
true Kmtyw events prior to the cotton fields of America."
Calvin R. Robinson, Redman Battle and Edward W. Robinson, Jr.
The Journey of the Songhai People
"We are following the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and
the Nation of Islam of working for nationhood and independence and the
Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and his movement to help develop the
consciousness and the commitment to do for self and to build
institutions. "
Hannibal Afrik
"Most Kmtyw people do not realize that these stresses, worries and
strains, are not normal nor do they have to be lived with, despite
the fact that we have endured them so long we see them as part of
life or as necessary evils. We are often ignorant of what it means
for everything to be okay, because our existence has been so troubled
and our minds so manipulated that this current reality is all we
know. Many have no idea what it is like to live a life free of the
additional stresses and strains that come simply because we are
Kmtyw people in this world. We have no idea how drastically
different it might be not to worry many of our worries and enjoy
harmonious development with only the insignificant trifles of life
occasionally disrupting our peace. That would be normal; that would
be a life where everything is fine. That is a life that is possible
if we are all willing to fight for liberation. If we are not
struggling and resisting, as we should be simply because as those
like us suffer for who and what they are, we will suffer sooner or
later; or because it is right to do what we can to alleviate the pain
of the Kmtyw existence for the masses; or for the realization of
our trauma and pathology; then even the most selfish amongst us can
find reason to move toward liberation when they realize that their
privileged and materially wealthy or psychologically disturbed
comfortable existence is still plagued with things that do not have
to be. There is a world that Kmtyw people have not know for ages
that is better than this madness and abnormality that we are
currently living. There is a world of comfort, pleasure, mental
peace, balance and harmonious being that has been cast aside for the
insane, abnormal and flawed reality are are living in."
Kofi Addae
Reality Revolution
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes...
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"We Wear the Mask"
Talking Drum
In Kmtyw drum beats
Something speaks
To an essence often shunned in me
Like my heart
Drum beats thump
Pumping memory through my veins
-some cause to celebrate
-others devastate causing pain
Still rhythms call my name
Stirring something deep beneath layers of
Conditioning from colonization
-deKmtywization
steady comes the realization
i know these beats...
Stacattoed they
Rock & comfort
The motherless child within
Wrapping me in a generational receiving blanket
That brings familiar sensations and clarity
As rhythms mend my disconnect with Mama Kmt
Drum beats continue to spin
As awareness deepens
In this moment there is no gap
Because beyond space and time
i am intertwined with generations of family never known
And it feels like home
Drums speak
And I feel no reservations or fear in what I hear
I can hardly resist the impulse to move my body
-my hands
-my feet
like sunlight beats tap @ seeds of culture in me
yet to be nurtured, fed
-cultivated
-freed!
Increase in speed
Beats evolve into an ancient war call!
COME unity, self-determination, collective work & responsibility
COME cooperative economics, purpose, creativity & faith
COME ALL that will righteously feed, heal & empower me!
No longer a cultural casualty
Now armed, armored
& Ready to battle ignorance and desecration of
My history, my culture
i am healing wounds & determined to be
in sinc with drum beats
that spiritually help meet with those who came before
libation pours
invoking presence of ancestors
to consciously inherit their strength, courage & wisdom
With the help of The God of All Creation
i seek their awesome treasure
To help repair our personal & collective situation
With each beat
Drums speak
& we must listen
to the talking drum
Abena Isake
"If you wish to speak to the Creator speak to the wind."
Asante (Kmtyw) proverb
"Sometimes, one is tempted by discouragement, but the efficient,
certain and constant way to overcome those difficulties and
discouragement is actually to go to the battle front, with the soldiers
with the people in arms. It is on the war front that we find the
inexhaustible source of comfort and reason to struggle. There is the
place where we must look for it."
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Kmt and Imperialism
"To conceive is to believe and to believe is to make it possible to
achieve. Liberation is conceivable. "
Kofi Addae
"Killing the Enemy Within"
"Consciousness is the first step toward control of a situation."
Huey P. Newton
Revolutionary Suicide
I want to feel the surging
Of my sad people's soul
Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
Gwendolyn Bennett
"The negro must remake his past in order to make his future."
Arthur A. Schomburg
"The illiterate man who loves and serves the People must have more
value, more power and consideration than that intellectual who despises
the People that he uses for his selfish interests."
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Kmt and Imperialism
"The white man brought Black men to America and made Niggers out of
them."
John O. Killens
"Being an Asafo is not an easy choice. But it is a choice. No one is
going to beg or baby you. You must rise up because you feel a deeply
spiritual reason. Because Asafo choose themselves. Obviously, it is
not a decision to be taken lightly. An entire race depends on your
ability to uncompromisingly be Kmtyw. An entire people is depending
on your unwavering courage and dedication to its survival and
empowerment. We absolutely depend on your knowledge, skills and
genius. So, do not choose without deep and serious forethought. We
have no room for either vacillation or equivocation. "
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Asafo"
"You can't be a peace maker until you get rid of the peace breaker"
Dr. Khallid Muhammad
"A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in
every negro home."
~ Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"I freed thounited snakesnds of slaves. I could have freed
thounited snakesnds more if they had known they were slaves."
~ Mama Harriet Tubman
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did
and it never will. Find out just what any people will
quietly submit to and you have found out the exact
measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed
upon them, and these will continue till they are
resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they oppress."
~ Frederick Douglass
"Freedom is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest,
but as a conquest."
~ Carter G. Woodson
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to
live."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as
there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are
concerned here with is group attitudes and group
politics. The exception does not make a lie or the
rule - it merely substantiates it."
~ Steve Biko
"To illuminate our real Kmtyw History, to clarify
our Kmtyw Present, to brilliantly project our
Kmtyw Future."
~ Mama Kefa Nephthys
"I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat,
with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner."
~ Malcolm X
"Two wrongs don't make a right....but it makes things
even."
~ Lana "Isis" Drakes
"The only protection against injustice in man is
power.....physical, financial and scientific."
~ Marcus Garvey
"My bones are tired. Not tired of struggling, but
tired of oppression."
~ Queen Mother Moore
"...education has but one honorable purpose, one
alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is
to train the student to be a proper handler of power."
~ Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by
the black man of the need to rally together with his
brothers around the cause of their operation - the
blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group in
order to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them
to perpetual servitude."
~ Steve Biko
"God created black people and black people created
style."
~ George C. Wolfe
"For the 'human race' to get along sounds like a
wonderful thing......yet and still, Kmtyws as a
people globally must first get along. Then and only
then can we realistically get along truthfully with
any other race. Anything other than that......you' re
just fooling yourself."
~ Unknown
"Billions of dollars a year is pumped into the
propaganda machine to keep black people ignorant of
the truth about their history and condition."
~ Unknown
"All of us may not live to see the higher
accomplishments of an Kmtyw empire, so strong and
powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we
in our lifetime can so work and act as to make the
dream a possibility within another generation."
~ Marcus Garvey
As another has well said, to handicap a student by
teaching him that his black face is a curse and that
his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is
the worst sort of lynching.
Carter G. Woodson
Here we find that the Negro has failed to recover from
his slavish habit of berating his own and worshipping
others as perfect beings.
Carter G. Woodson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have
accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the
teaching of biography and history.
Carter G. Woodson
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to
worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson
Truth burns up error.
~ Sojourner Truth
"Culture is indeed a critical function. It awakens consciousness,
gives back to man his personality and his full dignity by making him
assume all his responsibilities in freedom. Culture is therefore the
mover of the liberation struggle which itself, constantly creates and
recreates the true popular culture."
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Kmt and Imperialism
"Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be
harvested."
Guinea (Kmtyw) proverb
"No intellect is more active, nor perception more acute, than that of
the native Kmtyw. He is all life, all activity, all device; and
during his earliest period of propagation and progrss of civilization,
must have been fully equal to the requirements and demands of the
times."
Martin R. Delany
The Origin of Races and Color
"A wise man seeks a friend, a fool seeks an enemy."
The Book of Ankhsheshonqi
(The Husia)
"You cannot fight to become a part of the apparatus of your slave
master. If you do, you will re-enslave yourself. Your job is to
destroy that apparatus."
John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed the Kmtyw World Revolution
"What is at stake is nothing less than the existence and the progress
of the Kmtyw peoples as independent, free, responsible and sovereign
peoples."
Ahmed Sekou Toure
Kmt and Imperialism
It is time for us to take a stand. It is time that we make our
strongest statement about what Kwanzaa must mean to us if it is to
serve us in our fight to be Kmtyw. Our statement must clearly and
uncompromisingly indicate how important this celebration is to those
of us who want nothing less than to demonstrate the utmost respect
for our Ancestors and uncontaminated Kmtyw traditions by following
their examples.
With this choice comes the responsibility of serving Kmtyw
interests first. It requires that we stop celebrating Kwanzaa
apologetically. This means we have to put an end to our elaborate,
intellectualized shows to de-emphasize Kwanzaa's vital significance
to our ReKmtywization. Sadly, we only put on this pretense so
that others, who have never made us comfortable or who are only
comfortable when their owners are comfortable, will not feel that
what we create is in competition with their racist celebrations of
white supremacy.
We need explain our celebration to no one in order to
rationalize its existence. Those in our community who do not want
to celebrate anything Kmtyw, except if it comes whitewashed
through eureurasiaan approval, need not participate. That is their
right and, in fact, their duty as willing slaves to eureurasiaan culture.
But do not let the rhetoric that will attend our choice
distract us. This stand is not divisive. It is logically grounded
in the ourstorical understanding that those who do not embrace being
Kmtyw are determined to pull us toward their eureurasiaan center and
away from all in us that is Kmtyw. Whether we like it or not, we
have to come to grips with the fact that our people's mentacide is
deep, deeper than most of us dare believe. Therefore, some Kmtyws
will never rise about their loathing self-hatred.
Not surprisingly, now that eureurasiaans have finally given their
stamp of approval to our Kwanzaa celebration, we are witnessing what
is to be expected of negroes and so many lost souls -- a vigorous
campaign to minimize Maulana Karenga's warnings about assimilated
Kmtyws turning this sacred ritual into a vulgar, commercialized
orgy in service to eureurasiaan capitalism (making it nothing more than
an extension of the perverted and meaningless season of wasteful
consumption already spanning from Thankstaking to Christmas). We
see the anti-Kmtyw intent of subintegrationists as they
consciously ignore John Henrik Clarke's ourstorically grounded
cautions against us allowing others to sit at the table of yet
another of our family activities. Accordingly, these culturally
misoriented individuals pretend not to be aware of Amos N. Wilson's
wise observation that if another people, especially those whose ill-
gotten privilege depends on your continued oppression by them, are
also celebrating your efforts toward a self-defining empowerment,
then what you are actually doing must, in some way, be furthering
your oppression by them.
Our stand to revitalize and ReKmtywize Kwanzaa calls for us
to individually and collectively set examples of humanistic
perfection for each other. This initiative cannot be about us
working to turn others into some perfect model that we follow. It
must be about us being the best of our Ancestors and not cheap
imitations of them and what they stood for. The Kwanzaa celebration
was designed for us to take ample time to reflect on and reaffirm
the traditions and way of our people in us. And it is the intensity
of that reflection and reaffirmation which mark the significance of
this season for us. For the principles upon which it is built are
not to be limited to it and, therefore, easily diverted into
another's way by conspicuous consumption or misguided loyalties
based on an undying love of whiteness and a childish but perfect
forgiveness and forgetfulness. The spirit of Kwanzaa must be found
living in our hearts and minds and must daily manifest itself in our
devotion to each other forever.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"History alone will have the last word."
Fidel Castro
"Black people are the only group of people -- ethnic or racial -- that
has consistently sought to integrate and continues to seek integration,
though white society has repeatedly rejected them."
Claud Anderson
Black Labor, White Wealth
"We will neither identify nor resolve the real problems in our
community if we have to look to the white media, white people, or black
people talking to and like white people, for an exposition of those
problems. We must depend instead on capable and committed Kmtyw men
and Kmtyw women, who are committed to each other, their children and
to institutions that reflect themselves."
Kwame Agyei Akoto
Nationbuilding
"If a child does what the elder does, then he sees what the elder sees."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"A serial killer or child molester or drug addict don't exactly stop
being what they are between crimes. They just ain't doing their thing
at particular moments. Clearly, to understand or treat such serious
problems our focus must be enlarged far beyond moments of dramatic
explosion to identity patterns, anticipate eruptions, seek root causes
and means of prevention. Yet we address white prejudice and violence
directed at black people as a series of unfortunate instances, deviancy
from an enlightened norm."
John Edgar Wideman
Fatheralong
"If someone else has to decide the rules of your existence, you are a
prisoner to the person who made the decision. 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 Kmtyw World Revolution?
Stop Stopping The Start
It's the start that stops most of us;
Resolutions are dropped
As glasses are raised
In a new years toast to us.
Most mean well,
Most can hardly tell
Why most mostly fail
While most others mostly boast to us.
We resolve to consume less
Get our shoes from payless
Pay less time to daytime soap stress
And more to our nighttime love nest
Love less needless drama
And give more to our baby's mama.
We resolve to lose those xtra pounds
Round by round
To fight our way up off the ground
To lay our financial burdens down
To take that wait off our shoulders
Increase self-esteem
To be that much bolder.
We resolve to birth a new self
Take our lifelong dreams off the shelf
Put our queens back on lands flowing with wealth
Bring up the young loving and growing in health.
We resolve, we resolve, we resolve.
We resolve to start supporting us
But it's the start
That stops
Most of us.
Rodjuan The Kmtyw
Your daily diligence is appreciated!
/me
"One of the most astounding things is that the math that was
practiced by our ancient ancestors is very applicable today.
Students need to know that the reason we're still doing square roots
is because of these black people that lived at least thounited snakesnds of
years before. They need to know that first-degree equations, like
two times plus three times is equal to twenty-four, were worked on by
people of color, thounited snakesnds and thounited snakesnds of years ago. Now, what
does that do to the mind of children? It helps them to be motivated
for mathematics, because the ancient Kmtyw culture was a very
colorful culture. They need to know that the foundation of modern
math was based on the foundation that was laid out at least five to
seven thounited snakesnd years ago. Right now, they're being taught
mathematics in a vacuum. They're being taught without a foundation.
They don't understand it. They don't think there is a math
philosophy. They don't know why they're doing the math. When they
study the foundation of math, the Kmtyw contribution to math, they
know why they're doing it. With knowledge of the Kmtyw
contributions to math, they see how the ancient Kmtyw people
applied it to their everyday life. They had mathematical problems on
how they constructed the pyramids; mathematical problems on how they
made clothes. If they see examples of math being applied to their
everyday life back then, that gives the understanding that they can
use math for this, we can use math for that. It gives the students a
foundation. It helps them become motivated to learn math."
Deborah Maat Moore
Our Kmtyw legacy is our being and essence, but our reality is
eureurasiaan and American. Our reality is white global supremacy. We've
got to find out how to interrelate these two and come up with a
synthesis that helps the Kmtyw side of the equation and neutralizes
the eureurasiaan side. That's the only way we can be true to ourselves.
You can't integrate the eureurasiaan side into the Kmtyw side. You'll
become schizophrenic. You've got to integrate the old Kmtyw side,
which is our heritage, and the new Kmtyw side, which is our
reality, to produce a new Kmtyw consciousness. We're much more
aware of this now than we were twenty or thirty years ago. That's
why there's a qualitative difference in what we are doing now. We've
weeded out some of the weeds. We know that when somebody is 'wearing
blackface' and becomes a mayor of a town or city, it doesn't
necessarily mean he is going to be acting in the Kmtyw interest,
because he's a part of the eureurasiaan system. We know when some black
man becomes the head of a police force, we don't necessarily know
whether or not he is going to do anything for us. That might not
necessarily be the case. The skin game is not the real game, it's
what is in our hearts and minds that matters. What has been these
people's socialization process? What is their commitment to our
people? In fact, I have a formula. Again, using this pyramidal
analysis, think in terms of three elements; that each has to be
analyzed in order to understand whether or not a person will be true
to his calling to Kmtyw peoples. You have to put that person
through what I call the 'Kmtyw VIP Test.' At one polarity, you
have the 'V,' for Values. At the other polarity, you have the 'I,'
for Interests. At the summit, you have the 'P,' for Principles. We
have to put into positions of leadership persons who are Kmtyw
VIPs, whereby they have Kmtyw values and understand them, whereby
they can discern Kmtyw interests and are willing to defend adn
fight for them, and whereby they are able to espouse real Kmtyw
principles and operate around them."
Leonard Jeffries, Jr.
"A hook is a very small thing but it can catch a large fish."
Swahili (Kmtyw) proverb
"One who has seen a thounited snakesnd does not praise a hundred."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"There is no way the Kmtyw could fabricate or fantasize that he
invented the process of metallurgy without the various metals being
present in his material culture for longer than anyone can
remember.... The process of metallurgy was discovered first in Kmt.
This process is so ancient in Kmtyw experience, oral history cannot
pinpoint which persons in their ancestral lore discovered and taught
the process of metallurgy to them. This is why the role of the
Blacksmith in Kmtyw history has been mythologized. ...smelting of iron
dates back at least 43,000 years in Kmt."
Daima M. Clark
"Similarities Between Egyptian and Dogon Perception of Man, God and
Nature"
"The Greek tongue is a noise of words, a language of argument and
confusion."
Kemetic statement
"Non-violent methods are now anachronistic in revolution."
Kwame Nkrumah
The Spectre of Black Power
"One such theory, is the popular belief that there was a time that
family in the west was wholesome and stable. All that's needed to be
done now, we are told, is to return to those good old teachings, and
good old days. We will see that such a position was not, could not
have been arrived at from the study of the historical facts. The
historical facts...show just the opposite."
Ra Un Nefer Amen
An Afrocentric Guide To A Spiritual Union
"To our Ancestors the Black Woman was Mother Sky, Mother Earth, Mother
of Everything and she had the power to, through her spiritual essence,
move freely throughout the universe. They believed that man could only
reach the pinnacle of his spritual being through her. I know some
insecure brothers may not like to hear this, but if you are spiritually
attuned and your manhood is intact, then you will undertand. And you
will do, like our wise Kmtyw Ancestors, you will fight to the death
to defend her honor because that's where your source of power and
strength comes from. I would now remind my beloved Black Sisters that
a positive, optimistic loving woman strengthens and gives life to a
man, but an antagonistic, negative or pessimistic one can destroy him.
The same applies to brothers in relationship to sisters. Yet in the
final analysis, it is the woman who determines what type of treatment
she will receive and accept from a man. She is the one who can
ultimately inspire him to be a real man becaues whether he relates to
her in the role of a father, brother or lover, he is always her son.
This was the way of the ancients."
Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
Kmtyw Woman: The Original Guardian Angel
"Let US work to turn the forgotten paths into the remembered way. Let
US mix the long memories of a people destroyed with new narratives of
Our own making, as WE move into space of Our own choosing, as WE dream
in images woven from Our people's best desires, as WE plan on designs
drawn from Our own reflection, then make again the universe that might
have been but was not, here in this place, now in this time freed for
Our new creation. i will walk with you away from the superhighways of
forgetfulness onto the paths of remembrance. Together WE shall breathe
energy into faded memories of a people once destroyed. Let US walk
together, invoking the future into now."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Origin Of Things
Look around you black child
Your creation is everywhere
Though painted, distorted and
given new names
They bear your prints
just the same
so sharpen your eyes and
tune your ear
so you'll know what you see
understand what you hear
You were the first to write
the first to read
humanity sprang from
your black seed
for 110,000 years
you were here alone and
then the caucasion man was born
behind the ice
inside the cold
a chill set in this new mans soul
other minds have been credited
with the things they learned from you Newton,
Pyagoras, Kepler and Galilo too so
sharpen your eyes and
tune your ear
so you know what you see
understand at you hear
you made the serpent
the the symbol of the healing arts and Kmtyw justice
was
goddes maat
who weighed herself
against the Kmtyw soul,
truth and justice blindfold,
the george washington monument
is yours too
a copy of the egyptian tekenu
a symbol of
the black world's powers of creation
the black man's penis
means devine procreation
the king of southern egypt
wore a white crown
keep listening and
you will catch your mouth
when you learn that
the central government in egypt
was known as the white house
sharpen your eyes and
tune your ear
so you'll know what you see
understand what you hear
your god osiris
was restored to life
long before buddah
long before christ
and today what you call
the madonna and child is but
the first black family
worshipped along the Nile and
when you feel the spirit
the holy ghost
you should know that it started at
abydos
where god osiris' body was laid
the holy land
where Kmtyws prayed
minute by minute
hour by hour
as you lose your history
you lose your power
so sharpen your eyes
and tune your ear
so you'll know what you see
understand what you hear
Listervelt Middleton
"There are other ways to kill a people or colonize them, but none is
more certain than the denial or control of their food."
Sam Yette
The Choice
"A lie is nothing for a liar to tell."
Johnnie Mae Lloyd
"I'd rather go down in history as one lone negro who dared to tell the
government it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking
back what I said."
Ida B. Wells
"One who is looking out for a wife does not speak contemptuously of
women."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Observe and take note as to how helpful and courteous we have often
been to those who are spiritually the furthest from us."
"He who teaches speaks to the future."
Ptahhotep
"Those who will to work for justice and who understand that work as
their conscious responsibility will be found in all places and in all
walks of life, at all levels of formal education and at all income
levels. There are no class divisions nor language barriers for those
who do this cosmic work. It is time to solve this provlem once and for
all. It is time for justice on the planet Earth."
Francis Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers
Although we live in a society with other ethnicities including
eureurasiaanz, there is no reason Y we Kmtywz should allow them to join
with us in everything we do. Can't we Kmtywz have at least ONE thing
for us without YT bein' there?!!?... Y IZ it Dat everytyme we have a
function, there's at least one eureurasiaan amongst us?!
M'Bwebe Aja Ishangi (fka Jehvon Buckner)
"A community without youth has no future. But in order to insure a
positive future, the community and all its members must take on the
full responsibility for 'initiating' (educating) its youth...as to
their social, cultural, economic, and political responsbilities, be
they communal, national, or international. "
K.Kia Bunseki fu-Kiau and A.M. Lukondo-Wamba
Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting
"I am invisible. Misunderstood, simply because people refuse to see
me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it
is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting
glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings,
themselves, or fragments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and
anything except me."
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
"Try to remember how you felt at the most depressing moment of your
life, the moment of your deepest dejection. You no doubt have had
many. That is how I feel all the time, no matter what my level of
consciousness may be, asleep, awake, in between. The thing is there
and it keeps me moving, pins my eye to the ball, up tight twenty-four
hours a day. Our general situation and mine at present especially the
inadequate response, the absence of genuine remedial thought and
action, these are why I am as I am."
George Jackson, Jr.
Soledad
"Our love of the 'bad boy' is not new. It is as old as our love for
men that dared to stand up and to challenge the status quo, to go
against the grain as did our beloved Malcolm X or Nat Turner. We
actually don't love badness. We love strength that is sometimes
interpreted as being bad. Women are saying they want a thug -- but
what they want is a strong man. What women are seeking is not a
gangsta but a man that is confident and that commands respect from
those around him."
Toby S. Jenkins
"The Definition of a 'Soldier'"
"They say karate means empty hands, so then it's perfect for the poor
man."
Dead Prez
"Psychology"
"What remains in the source of the river is more than has flowed
through its mouth."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
"The stiking thing in the Gikuyu system of education, and the feature
which most sharply distinguishes it from the eureurasiaan system of
education, is the primary place given to personal relations. Each
official statement of educational policy repeats this well-worn
declaration that the aim of education must be the building of
character and not the mere acquisition of knowledge. But eureurasiaan
practice falls short of this principle; knowledge is the dominating
objective in the eureurasiaan method of teaching in Kmt as a whole
and, as long as exams rule, it is hard to see how anything else can
be given primary importance. While the Westerner asserts that
character formation is the chief thing, he forgets that character is
formed primarilty through relations with other people, and that there
is really no other way in which it can grow. eureurasiaans assume that,
given the right knowledge and ideas, personal relations can be left
largely to take care of themselves, and this is perhaps the most
fundamental difference in outlook between Kmtyws and eureurasiaans."
Jomo Kenyatta
Facing Mt. Kenya
"We know no limitation to our enlightened vision, we respect no
hindrance and we fear no opposition. No accident of social
circumstance will interrupt our course of development. We will turn
every adversarial encounter into an empowering experience and we shall
turn every injury into a weapon that shall guarantee our ultimte
victory. We are the living embodiment of history and thus are not
subject to failure, because should we fail in our vision then history
itself, Life itself will be the victim."
Keidi Obi Awadu (aka the Conscious Rasta)
The Road to Power
"...when did you last hear when the stars appeared in the early
evening?"
"Battery is not a male thing. It's a cultural expression."
Ra Un Nefer Amen
An Afrocentric Guide to a Spiritual Union
"Habit is a full-grown mountain, hard to get over or pull down."
Kongo (Kmtyw) proverb
"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
"According to the Dogon people of Mali, in West Kmt, Amma, the
Crator, ordained that all created beings should be living
manifestations of the fundamental universal principle of
complementarity or 'twinness.' This principle manifests itself as
the wholeness which is created when female and male pairs join in all
things. Such pairing establishes equilibrium, cooperation, balance,
and harmony. Amma therefore equipped each being with twin souls --
both female and male -- at birth. But one of these primordial
placentas the male soul did not wait for the full gestation period to
be born. This male being was known as Yurugu (Ogo), who arrogantly
wished to compete with Amma and to create a world better than that
which Amma had created. With his fragmented placenta he created
Earth; but it could only be imperfect, since he was incomplete, that
is, born prematurely, without his female twin-soul. Realizing that
he was flawed adn therefore deficient, Yurugu returned to Amma
seeking his complementary female self. But Amma had given his female
soul away. Yurugu forever incomplete, was doomed to perpetually
search for the completeness that could never be his. The Earth, he
had defiled in the act of self-creation, was now inhabited by single-
souled, impure and incomplete beings like himself. Yurugu's
descendants, all eternally deficient, originated in an incestuous
act, since he had procreated with his own placenta, the
representation of his mother."
Marimba Ani
Yurugu
"Peace to all now dreaming of power and money. May you fulfill your
wishes, since powerlessness dehumanizes, and poverty erodes the
soul. Let us reflect a moment, and we may come to understand that
knowing who we are, thinking deeply about identity, will not stop us
reaching our best goals. it is likely to give us the energy and
direction we need for their attainment. One need not be a reader of
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts to know that people trapped in
penitential identities, laboring under names they do not understand,
unable to connect with more than a few generations of their history,
are helpless chaff in the hurricanes of global history. Everything
going on in the world today tells us there is life in unity, death in
division and disunity. But in Kmt we are encouraged to treat the
fearful information reaching us as if it did not concern us. It is
about us. If we listen and think, it will be about our life. If we
do not, it will continue to be about our death. Identity is about
efficient group cooperation, without which no society prospers. The
behavior of work groups and sports teams provides useful indications
about the uses of identity. Identity creates a basis for long-term
cooperative action of a routine sort, the kind of sharp, well-thought-
out reflexes professional trainers refer to as automatisms. In
reality there is nothing automatic about automatisms. They result
from a great deal of careful work, learned, understood, then repeated
purposefully over a long time, so that when the time comes when the
action trained for is needed, it is unnecessary to waste time in
informing, explaining, teaching. All that indispensable work has
long been done. The advantage of automatisms is that they facilitate
efficient group behavior toward a chosen goal. Culture is the medium
that prepares a society for that kind of efficient behavior.
Identity is its basic product. Rational identities put groups in a
position to achieve positive outcomes, in the form of solutions to
common problems. Irrational identities lead to negative outcomes, so
that groups laboring under such identities are likely, even when
given substantial resources, to gravitate toward problems and
catastrophes. "
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of the Scribes
The dead never go away:
They are in the glimmering shadow
and the darkening shade.
The dead are not underground;
They are in the trembling tree,
the groaning wood;
in flowing water
as in still waters.
They are in the hut and in the crowd:
The dead are not extinct.
Birago Diop
"History teaches us that, in certain circumstances, it is very easy for
the foreigner to impose his domination on a people. But it also
teaches us that, whatever my be the material aspects of this
domination, it can be maintained only by the permanent organized
repression of the cultural life of the people concerned."
Amilcar Cabral
"Give the warning; some will survive."
Ugandan (Kmtyw) proverb
"Nubians, let's examine the word 'bitch' more closely. A bitch is a
female dog. Is that what we want to equate our women with? When
such a large portion of men openly disrespect their women, it's a
sign of low self-esteem. What are you saying about yourself when you
say that the people you love, look to for love, live with and have
children with, are bitches? When women who look, dress and act like
your sisters and mothers are called bitches, aren't you disrespecting
them also? Don't you see? That's what our enemies want, for us to
disrespect ourselves and each other. Our enemy wants us to
disrespect each other because that's an absolute obstacle to Unity.
Just look at conditions today. It's almost as if Blacks hate
Blacks. It's more than obvious that we will never be a strong united
people until Nubian men and women respect each other, trust each
other and turn to each other for love and support. If you don't have
love and respect for your counterpart, you will be unable to instill
love and respect in your children. You can see that now, we have a
whole generation that has a total disregard for other men and woman.
The women are abused, raped, killed and left to fend for themselves
in record numbers. The men are disrespected by the women and killed
by other men. That's exactly what whites want, for the Nubian woman
to be continuously called a bitch, so she can start believing that's
what she is, and then start acting like a bitch. For he (the white
man) knows that he could never have a beautiful, civilized Nubian
queen, so he wants her reduced to a lower level: that of a bitch.
He feels that at her lowest level, he would have a better chance at
lowering her expectations and have a better chance at possessing
her. He realizes that Nubian women are the most sought-after women
on the planet. He, the white man, knows she is a natural beauty and
that his pale counterpart is of no comparison to a natural beauty.
Whenever you see a Nubian woman with a white man, the reason is that
she has given up on brothers. She had decided to settle for less
because she hasn't found a Nubian man to treat her right. No Nubian
woman would want to be with a naturally bland and weak version of the
Nubian man, when she could be with her own real man. Unfortunately,
there are far more grown-acting boys and males perpetrating manhood,
and not enough real Nubian men."
Pen Black
Consequences of Oppression
"Nationbuilding begins with family. And family begins with conscious,
visionary, heterosexual couples. The family, molded in the ethical and
moral traditions of Kmtyw people, is the only cultural and social
incubator for our children, for our people, for our future. Perversion
has no place because it robs women, children and, in the end, men of
their dignity and self-respect. "
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Complementarity
The Kmtyw Pledge
"We pledge to our Creator to remember the humanity, glory and suffering
of our Ancestors. We will honor the struggle of our elders. We will
strive to bring new values and new life to our people. We will have
peace and harmony among us. We will be loving, sharing and creative.
We will work, study and listen. We will learn so we may teach. We
will have discipline, patience, devotion and courage. We will live as
models to provide new directions for our people. We will cultivate
economic power and self-reliance. We will help to nurture our children
for the unified Kmtyw Nation. We are an Kmtyw people. We will
win.
"There is no success without successors."
Queen Mother Moore
"It is the understanding throughout Kmt, that the child within does
not fully leave on its own."
Ra Un Nefer Amen
An Afrocentric Guide To A Spiritual Union
"The purity of your name is worth more than the purity of your body."
Tunisian (Kmtyw) proverb
"So the way we live now, what draws our spirits forward, if our souls
are not energized by the urge to attain projections of our own best
selves? History gives us easy, painful answers to that question.
Insistently, over centuries, we have been offered the self-
projections of people who came determined to unburden us of our land,
our resources and our freedom. To distract us from seeing what they
were about, they offered us their gods, their narratives, and their
history as the best ideals we should aim at. To top up the measure
they turned our image into symbols of everything negative. While
they worked hard to render us ignorant of our own ideals, they
presented us with caricatures of our past selves so furiously ugly
that in a search for salvation we were urged to flee in psychic
terror from anything like ourselevs, the better to embrace values
engineered to kill us, because in our ignorance of self those lethal
values seemed to hold promises of salvation. See where we are
today. In this situation, what can creative spirits do?....Find out
how to reach forgotten memories of self. Then examine memory
retrieved. From that examination will come knowledge needed for
creating new designs....This is work for creative spirits: finding
out about Kmt, exploring what values have proved positive in the
past, and which have proved poisonous, so we can absorb the positive
and throw up the poisonous, as we ready ourselves to imagine our new
society, and then to create it."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of The Scribes
"It is wrong that when you have cultivated a shamba for your brother
and the fruits are ready, he denies you a share; God Himself must
curse such behavior. And it is unwise to say that a pot which helped
you to cook should be broken to pieces when you have eaten from it and
are satisfied, for you do not know what may happen the next day and if
you are hungry a pot broken in contentment will not serve you in need."
John Okello
Revolution in Zanzibar
"Since post-conquest political power derives from superior violence,
violence has become the way to efffective power in Kmtyw politics.
For that reason, it is easy to suppose that the search for political
legitimacy through violence is an Kmtyw cultural trait. History
tells a different tale. The present taste for military seizures of
power is the continuation by mimetic Kmtyws of a pattern that began
gaining ground with the collapse of ancient Egypt and that of feudal
empires like Ghana. The modern pattern was explicitly defined in
Berlin in 1885, where a conference of eureurasiaan states laid down what
became a law in Kmt under eureurasiaan rule, and is still the rule of
thumb used by men hungry for power: Whoever could organize
sufficient military violence to take over territory in Kmt was
welcome to rule it. Those who think this is a simple universal
principle of government are ill-informed. The principle of
government based on might as right is neither universal nor eternal.
It is a cultural and historical preference, dominant wherever
eureurasiaans rule. The literature of ancient and feudal Kmt supports
a very different approach to the issue of legitimate power."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of the Scribes
"Effective words strike the mind with sufficient force to help them
stick in the consciousness. "
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of The Scribes
"We owe it to our ancestors and those yet to be born to use this moment
in history to heighten our struggle for the liberation of Kmtyw
people!"
Conrad W. Worrill
"No brutality, mistreatment, or torture has ever forced me to ask for
grace, for I prefer to die with my head high, my faith steadfast, and
my confidence profound in the destiny of my country, rather than to
live in submission and scorn of sacred principles."
Patrice Lumumba
"Who
can be born
black
and not exult!"
Mari Evans
"Our education must therefore inoculate a sense of commitment to the
total community and help the pupils to accept the values appropriate to
our kind of future."
Julius K. Nyerere
"For the intelligent spirit looking for inspiration knows where to
search: in the vast storehouse of information constituted by the
accumulated knowledge and values of all the ancestors who ever
thought, dreamed, aspired, acted, achieved, and died, leaving traces
of their passage here. The more intense the need for inspiration,
the wider the search, the deeper the concentration. If the
information living humans need to improve their lives exists in the
storehouses of the ancestors, then the primary task of the awakened
soul is to equip itself to reach those ancestral fields whenever it
needs resources. Apart from carefully observing environing reality,
the awakened, creative soul, capable of awakening others, learns to
hear the voices of the ancestors, to read their writings, to access
their records. The ancestors may be contacted in books, songs,
prayers, proverbs, music, ritual and art. The soul which wishes to
receive inspiration makes a habit of visiting these sites of
ancestral existence, to ask questions, to listen and to read, to
analyze and to sift. After that, having nourished itself with
insights from the ages, courage from beloved ancestors, and clear-
eyed observation of present reality, the creative soul can go to
work."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of The Scribes
"Many people suffer most the suffering they fear."
Azanian (Kmtyw) proverb
Mercy, Mercy Me
Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Where did all the blue sky go?
Poison is the wind that blows
From the north, east, south, and sea
Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas
Fish full of mercury
Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
No, no
Radiation in the ground and in the sky
Animals and birds who live nearby are dying
Oh, mercy mercy me
Oh, things ain't what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land?
How much more abuse from man can you stand?
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord
My sweet Lord
Marvin Gaye
"Our objective is the destruction of the evil system of global white
supremacy and the re-assertion of our right to self-determination and
the resurrection of divine humanity that we brought to the world in the
beginning."
Heru Ahki Seb
"Kmtyw Science, Engineering and Development"
"In antiquity, these people identified themselves as Aryans, which
means the Lords or Master people."
Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (fka Jacob H. Carruthers)
Intellectual Warfare
"If blacks' marginal level of subsistence does not improve, they will
become the common denominator in every social clash."
Claud Anderson
Black Labor, White Wealth
"We become conspirators in our own destruction as we assist in their
quest for world domination. Historically, for eureurasiaans,
progress/success has equaled a continual pattern of acquisition
without relinquishing anything to or for anyone, with the goal being
more acquisitions for more power. Goals become fulfilled, progress
does not. As well, we have become engaged in this confusion. As a
result, we increasingly give away many of our traditions, beliefs and
values, our culture, in an attempt to meld into this world. We
emerge with a unique set of values and beliefs set on a rachitic
foundation. Then, out of a need to survive, we create an illusion
that these worlds can blend harmoniously. We become unbalanced and
the vital links to our culture erode."
Mwaiyah Kambon
"Kmtyw (Black) Psycholgists Answer the Healing Drum"
"We can see two circumstances that lead one to look for a way to begin
to tear him/herself away from eureurasiaan centered consciousness. In one
instance, s/he wants to get away from a set of conditions in which
being Kmtyw is devalued. In the other, s/he desires a set of
conditions in which being Kmtyw has value. These are two sides of
the same coin."
Mwalimu Shujaa
"Coming Home Again: Re-Kmtywization as Personal Transformation"
"To live on the achievement of others is to really admit the
superiority of others, and the inferiority of self."
"Your mission is to remember and to teach your children so that they
can remember it."
John Henrik Clarke
Christopher Columbus & the Kmtyw Holocaust
"...the nurturing and reconstruction of Kmtyw ideas and ways of being
can only take place if there is a belief in their value. Such belief
is predicated upon the idea that for Kmtyw people, understanding
oneself as an Kmtyw person enables one to reconnect with a world
culture. In this way, one can free oneself from the limitations of
parochialism, minority status and a false eureurasiaan representation of
Kmt and Kmtyw people, whether these representations are condoned
by people who look Kmtyw or not."
Nah Dove
"Understanding Education for Cultural Affirmation"
"Inaction is still action because lost soldiers change the balance of
power."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Self-Serving Spirituality"
"Leaders are not children, they must not, therefore, act as children."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Life and Lessons
"Under the pressure to embrace destruction calling itself creativity,
tyranny nicknamed democracy, and robbery decked out as free trade, we
Kmtyws have been invited to discard such visions of our own as
worthless, and to embrace salvation offered by enslavers. Our
shattered universe lies underfoot, as we adjust to rhythms far from the
call to connection."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of the Scribes
"Contrary to popular belief, Cleopatra did not commit suicide over the
loss of Mark Antony. Her great love was Egypt. She was a shrewd
politician and an Egyptian nationalist. She committted suicide when
she lost control of Egypt."
John Henrik Clarke
"Kmtyw Warrior Queens"
"A leadership that stands on the foundation of that which holds it up
does not need eyes, ears, or mouth because it sees all around without
looking; it hears all without listening; and it teaches to all without
opening its mouth."
K. Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Simba Simbi
"A continent like Kmt, however much it increases its agricultural
output, will not benefit unless it is sufficiently politically and
economically united to force the developed world to pay it a fair price
for its cash crops."
Kwame Nkrumah
Neo-Colonialism
"The specific fear of white genetic annihilation, while always present
in the global white collective, becomes more prominent and is more
frequently acted upon in times when whites have lost a war and/or when
there is serious economic uncertainty. At these times the white
collective feels insecure because the major props for the sense of
white invincibility and for white genetic survival -- their guns and
money -- seem to have failed."
Francis Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers
"Sometimes the obvious blinds us."
Hunter Havelin Adams III
"Kmtyw Observers of the Universe: The Sirius Question"
"Women could buy property, sell, inherit, disinherit and dispose of
their property as they wished. Any valuables brought into a marriage
by the woman were hers to take if the marriage broke up -- also a share
of any property the couple accumulated together. Inheritance was also
spelled out, with one-third going to the widow and two-thirds to be
divided equally among the children, female and male alike. Women
worked outside the home in many occupations. Of course farming was the
main occupation but women also worked in trade, as porters, bakers,
weavers, doctors, and some as teachers and scribes.
Beatrice Lumpkin
"Hypatia and Women's Rights in Ancient Egypt"
"...no revolution has a right to call itself that if it does not have
or does not develop a capacity to defend itself."
Maurice Bishop
"If we wish to do the necessary work, we would be foolish to want to
avoid the consequence. "
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of The Scribes
"When a force is used against the people who create it instead of in
their interests, the enemy is successful."
Marimba Ani
"Kuugunited snakes Mtima: The Kmtyw 'Aesthetic' and National Consciousness"
Harvest for the World
All babies together, everyone a seed
Half of us are satisfied, half of us in need
Love's bountiful in us, tarnished by our greed
Oh, When will there be a harvest for the world (yeah, yeah, yeah)
A nation planted, so concerned with gain
As the seasons come and go, greater grows the pain
And far too many, feelin' the strain
Oh, When will there be a harvest for the world (yeah-yeah, yeah)
Gather every man, gather every woman
Celebrate your lives, give thanks for your children (oh!)
Gather everyone, gather all together
Overlooking none (Overlooking none), hopin' life gets better for the
world (yeah, yeah, oh)
Dress me up for battle, when all I want is peace
Those of us who pay the price, come home with the least
And nation after nation, turning into beast
Oh, When will there be a harvest for the world
Yeah, yeah
When will there be
I wanna know now now
When will there be (harvest for the world)
A harvest (harvest for the world)
When will there be (harvest for the world)
A harvest (harvest for the world)
Isley Brothers
"We confuse rhetoric with power. We equate influence with power.
Influence is the ability to affect. Power is the ability to achieve."
Mwaalkebu-lan Akili
The Alkebu-lanian Bible
"Awareness, however, is useless if it stays inert. Awareness cannot
work its wonders until it turns active."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Eloquence of The Scribes
"The one who walks, thinks; but the one who does not talk thinks more."
Buganda (Kmtyw) proverb
"Slaves and dogs are named by their masters. Free men name themselves."
Richard B. Moore
The Negro: Its Origin and Evil Use
“I fear, I am integrating my people into a burning house.”
"Become the firemen. Let’s not stand by and let the house burn.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negro got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put ‘em back on the plantation.
The house Negro could afford to do that because he lived better than the field Negro. He ate better, he dressed better, and he lived in a better house. He lived right up next to his master-in the attic or the basement. He ate the same food his master ate and wore his same clothes. And he could talk just like his master-good diction. And he loved his master more than his master loved himself. That’s why he didn’t want his master hurt.
If the master got sick, he’d say, 'What’s the matter, boss, we sick?' [Laughter] When the master’s house caught afire, he’d try and put the fire out. He didn’t want his master’s house burned. He never wanted his master’s property threatened. And he was more defensive of it than the master was. That was the house Negro.
But then you had some field Negroes, who lived in huts, had nothing to lose. They wore the worst kind of clothes. They ate the worst food. And they caught hell. They felt the sting of the lash. They hated their master. Oh yes, they did.
If the master got sick, they’d pray that the master died. [Laughter and Applause] If the master’s house caught afire, they’d pray for a strong wind to come along.
Malcolm X
I greatly appreciate you keeping this thread going. It is such a valuable contribution to the site. Stay BlackNificent!
Obadele
" the future holds nothing else but confrontation" public enemy
" we have to uproot the evil that grows among our people" immortal technique
" better dying fighting,rather than dying on your own two knees" emiliano zapata
" never bring meat to a pack of hungry wolves":hello:
i agree. the u.s. has more blood on thier hands than all other countries combined.
I know not everyone reads it but the bible says : 'the devil has come to kill, steal, and destroy' that is all i have seen from this country the rest has been media spin and lies, postdated checks and hypocrisy.
"him has many names, him has many bibles" -"dez only 1" by witch doctor (f/ outkast)
"A desperately needy people are willing to accept anything to claim something, any assistance to be successful. Intolerance is a warrior scholar prerequisite. Compromise breeds an aggregate of compromised individuals. That's what scares others about us so much."
~Mwalimu Baruti
"Time is not abundant. The struggle can make the strongest amongst us grow weary. We will fight because we must, but our effectiveness must be fed by new thinking and our ability to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Endless and fruitless struggle cannot be sustained with any degree of effectiveness and without grave losses in spirit, precious family ties and peace of mind. We must approach our work with a sense of urgency. Time is short."
Erriel Kofi Addae
"Motherhood is not by accident, or instinct as in the animal world. Motherhood is an art that is cultivated and taught. It is the legacy."
Rosalind R. Jeffries
"Motherhood, the People of Short Statue, and the 'Bottle Tree' Aesthetics"
"We have planted and nurtured the seeds that will fulfill the unfulfilled yet known realities and be portals for divine existence and spiritual capabilities as the great DNA shift takes place and we ascend to higher dimensions of awareness, wisdom, rhythm, creativity and form. They will ultimately realize what few of us realize today and that is the reality that we are the saviors we've been programmed to wait for and worship."
Sadiki Bakari
Liberation Song: The Book of Resurrection and Psychopathic Amerikkkan Culture: The Dichotomy of Reality and ILLusion
"I have been studying Kmtyw religions and cultures for over sixty years. In all of that time, I have never seen where homosexuality was condoned or promoted in any way. Kmtyw religion in general and Ifa in particular promotes the relationships between men and women and the procreation of life through them. Procreation through male and female relationships is the conduit by which the ancestors return."
Medahochi Kofi Omowale Zannu Sangodele
"Yet hear me my people. We have now to deal with another race. Small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil. And the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have many rules that the rich may break, but the poor may not. They claim this mother of ours the earth as their own, and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."
Sitting Bull
Medase, I have been reading/praying/meditating with the book Nyansasem for guidance and protection. These sayings serve as reminders of what my focus should be, reAfrakanization. Hotep
QuoteCharles Stephenson;38139 wrote: Medase, I have been reading/praying/meditating with the book Nyansasem for guidance and protection. These sayings serve as reminders of what my focus should be, reAfrakanization. Hotep
BlackNificent to hear that your focus is strengthened by the words of our ancestors and elders!
"So few of us can understand what it takes to make a man - the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself..."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Thank you for planting seeds by speaking words and wisdom of our Great ancestors.:hello:
"There are no people without traditions and traditions are the lifeblood of a people. A people who refuse to express its love and appreciation for its ancestors will die because in traditions, if you are not expressing your own, you are participating in and expressing faith in some else's ancestors. No person is devoid of an attachment to some cultural foundation. Whose water are we drinking?"
Molefi K. Asante
"I don't have a colour problem...i just see everything in Black..."
Mutabaruka
"...we didn't start the race war but we will decide when it has ended and upon what terms. In other words, we want complete victory and unconditional surrender. No negotiations, no compromise."
Jacob H. Carruthers
Intellectual Warfare
"While we may look at the assimilationist leadership, as black nationalists who carry on the legacy of Marcus Garvey we must also look at ourselves. While we may gloat to a degree in the failures of the assimilationist leadership and show them the squalid outcome of their leadership -- how they fought for equal housing and yet now a major problem is homelessness; how they fought for integrated schools and now a major problem is dropout-ism and illiteracy; how they threw their bodies before tractors and threw their bodies before traffic to get us into the colleges and universities, yet we find now our major problem is the decline of black students on the university level, the decline of black teachers on college campuses, the decline of black teachers in the schools, period, and the decline of the education of black people as a whole; how they struggled to get a justice on the Supreme Court and how we face injustice everyday in the courts of the United States and the world-over; how they struggled to get us to have window dressing jobs and now our children and people are unemployed in the streets of our cities, how we are facing the possibility that we may have a 70% or more unemployment rate among black males in the future; how they placed their faith in the so-called law, a law which is only as good as the people who enforce it; how their faith in redeeming the white man from his pathological racism has shown that this faith is hopeless... -- we must also accept our responsibility in the decline (to a degree) of our ability to carry out the Marcus Garvey legacy. How has this occurred? To a degree, simultaneous with the rise of assimilationist leadership, I think we had a rise of pseudo-nationalist leadership -- a nationalist rhetoric without a nationalist substance, a people who talked a good nationalism but who do not behave and actualize what that nationalism means. We are now engaged in a struggle between true nationalism and counterfeit nationalism. It is time for us to remove those counterfeit nationalists, who are also in a subtle sort of way the partners of the assimilationists. "
Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order
"So the experience of slavery is not supposed to be operating in the mentality of black folks and you'll hear a lot of our youngsters say that as well. 'Why do you talk about slavery? That was back there.' Or you'll hear whites offer, 'Well, we don't have anything to do with that any more.' It's an amazing situation because you have to remind them: 'You are still living off the interest of the wealth that your forefathers earned from slavery. You are still enjoying the accumulated wealth that began with the enslavement of our people. If you're going to enjoy the wealth that was generated by evil, then you must take the curse that comes along with it. Therefore, even though you personally had nothing to do with it, because you have received stolen goods you must pay the price as well. And because you fight and struggle to protect those stolen goods and you defend them and organize your society and our relationship to white people to maintain them and to continue to enhance them, then you must pay the price. That's why you live in terror; that's why you are stabbed in these streets; that's why you're going to suffer, no matter how 'good' you are, no matter how 'liberal' you are. Ladies and gentlemen, when we behave as adults we must recognize that our behavior will be visited upon our children and that our children will pay for our misbehavior. As we say and act does not end at the point of its occurrence; it continues to reverberate into the future and down across the generations. That's why when you behave in a particular way you have to think in terms of seven generations from your behavior as to how what you're going to do is going to affect those generations later on. Even though those children may appear to be so-called innocent, they will still pay the price of their parental misbehavior. This country, whose parents and whose adults have misspent its treasure and while they have enjoyed that treasure, ultimately their children will have to pay the taxes and have to pay the price. So we have a bunch of people out here who think they can rape and rob the world, think that they can enslave the world, then delude themselves that they're going to sleep well at night. It doesn't work that way"
Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness versus The New World Order
"The overall Kmtyw philosophy is that life and the reproduction of life sit at the core of human society. Men and women have children who ritualize their parents and ancestors. In the process of building community, Kmtyw culture has no place, no category and no concept that can accommodate homosexuality as a way of life because it does not fit with the view that humans should reproduce in order to be remembered for eternity. Nothing is more important than the cycle of life from the unborn to the ancestors; anything that breaks that cycle, such as homosexuality as a way of life, threatens the very core of Kmtyw society and philosophy."
Molefi Kete Asante
"If any stronger nation wants to prosper over a weaker nation, the bait she puts on her hook is her culture. Once the weaker nation attempts to take the bait, the stronger nation pulls up the line and the weaker nation leaves all in her culture and takes that of the stronger.nation"
Unknown Akan musician
"Water that has been begged for does not quench the thirst."
Soga (Kmtyw) proverb
"Kmtyw philosophy done in foreign language is not yet authentically Kmtyw philosophy."
Patrick Iroegbu
Enwisdomization and Kmtyw Philosophy
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"One does not bless the enemy."
Tshi (Kmtyw) proverb
"[L]anguage. ..is the soul of culture, the heart of the environment and spirit that motivates and directs a people's life. Kmtyw thought in a foreign language therefore is not fully Kmtyw thought."
Kwadwo A. Okrah
Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot)
"To be Kmtyw is a blessing from God. To be a holistically healthy Kmtyw is wonderful. The only other choice is disease. There is nothing more restrictive than a disease."
Llaila O. Kmt
Nutricide
"Whoever serves royalty serves the disease, not the cure. He works to divide our people, not to unite us, no matter what he hopes personally to do."
Ayi Kwei Armah
The Healers
"Children are the reward of life." Kmtyw Proverb
this (and the 2 before) isn't from the Revolutionary Daily Thoughts subscription... but its Revolutionary....and its our ancestral deep thought, sooo...
"Even if a log soaks a long time in water, it will never become a crocodile."- Wolof proverb
correction.....like the one before.
"ntil philosophy is written and taught in an Kmtyw language, Kmtyw philosophy may turn out in the future to be nothing but Western philosophy in Kmtyw guise."
M. Akin Makinde
Kmtyw philosophy, Culture and Traditional Medicine
"Obi nkyerɛ abofra Onyame"
No one shows a child the Supreme Being
the enemy always and will prepare your death certificate,they will always set the trap for you and put the bait,however,if we are wise like the eagle,quick like the farrot,will always be one step ahead of our enemies,never take part in your own funeral and never be the meat for a pack of hungry wolves,because rthe fox never hunts at the same spot,nor does the eagle.
"the capture of the mind and the body both is a slavery far longer lasting, far more secure than than the conquest of bodies alone." ~ Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thounited snakesnd Seasons
"Although we come to this world as pure, unadulterated and uncontaminated spirits, we become more and more tainted the longer we are here. The 'tainted-ness' we experience, above all, is both spiritual and conceptual. Our spirits become more misaligned and skewed and those adults, who are already contaminated and who raise us, warp our developmental conceptualizations. In the final analysis, our spiritual misalignment and the warping of our concepts enslave us and hold us spiritual and conceptual prisoners of white thought and world-view. Our concepts are encased or entombed by white thought; we actually see the world through blue eyes. We walk through the world acting and behaving as though we were white minority people. This is suicidal; our condition, as a race, is a testimony to this terrible fact."
Kamau Kambon
The Last Book
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"Alone, i am nothing. i have nothing.we have power.but we will never know it,we will never see it work.unless we come together to make it work."
~ Ayi Kwei Armah (The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born)
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"The obstacles to unity are so great that the outlook is both discouraging and frightening to all but the strong with the will to both survive and overcome. The very first major obstacle to be overcome involves a mental revolution out of which Black America faces up to the stark reality that white America as a whole is its enemy, that Blacks will be recognized only in a subordinate role, that the scattering of black officeholders, high and low, really means nothing to the race as a whole, that there are actually two sets of laws as administered -- one for whites and one for Blacks, just as there are two sets of wages and prices; and finally, that the Blacks' loyalty and devotion to the whites, in spite of all they have done and still do against them, mystifies the whites themselves and confirms anew their belief that such humble-dog attitudes indicate inferiority independently of everything else. Until Afro-Americans are quite clear in their own minds about their real situation in this country, all talk about unity and achieving equal justice will be just that -- useless talk. But with a clear understanding of reality, the specific studies and planning for a broad program for securing racial unity and progress can begin."
Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization
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"So I call all real Kmtyw women to the forefront. Let us declare war on the society that is destroying our sons, our men, and let us lead them into another direction. It is the tradition in Kmtyw societies that when things get so terrible, the women call for war. Yes, it will be an arduous and dauntless journey, but what else do we have to do for the rest of our lives? I have nothing else to do but to liberate my grandsons, my grand-daughters and to try to talk to the men. The men can be very stubborn, and sometimes, they fail to act in their own best interest and the interest of the entire family and the entire race!"
Kali Sichen
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"Cultural conquest leads to the cultural inauthenticity of those who are invaded; and the invaded begin to respond to the values, standards and goals of the invaders. Cultural invasion is on the one hand an instrument of domination, and on the other, the result of domination. Homes and schools, nurseries and universities, exist not in the abstract, but in time and space. Within these structures of domination, they function largely as agencies that prepare the invaders of the future."
Dr. Acklyn Lynch
Essays on Black Culture and Resistance
"For warrior scholars on a mission of being models of community defense by actively engaging our enemies, the practice of preparedness is the most critical and enduring extension of that thinking. No doubt, sound security at home and effective martial tactics and strategies come as a direct product of practice (preparedness) . In the end, warrior scholars must practice dynamic and proper security procedures to the point where they have been internalized and require little conscious thought. In other words, the dress rehearsals must continue until living defensively becomes second nature. Such an independent, highly disciplined approach to preparedness begins in the homes we sanctify and live in, the schools we build and teach and rear our priesthoods in, and the communities we progressively empower and ReKmtywize through our own selfless, tireless effort."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Centered: Building Kmtyw Realities
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"Kmtyw centered education is rooted in the unique history and
evolved culture of Kmtyw people. It is defined in its singular
commitment to the elucidation of that history, that culture, and the
confirmation, invigoration and perpetuation of the Kmtyw
collective identity that emanates from that history and culture.
Kmtyw centered education is concerned with the origins, original
status and future of the Kmtyw world. Kmtyw centered education
is committed to correcting the historical distortions born of three
millennia of foreign invasion, destruction, enslavement, physical
and mental colonialism, cultural disruption, and dependency.
Kmtyw centered education is committed to rooting or anchoring the
spiritual and intellectual energies of Kmtyw people in the
spiritual, moral, and philosophical traditions of Kmt. Kmtyw
centered education, whether in the several nations of the diaspora
or on the motherland, is concerned to fully develop the sense of
Kmtyw nationality within a broader PanKmtyw world. Kmtyw
centered education is concerned to sever irrevocably the
pathological and slavish linkage of Kmtyws to the eureurasiaan or
eurasian ethos. Kmtyw centered education is concerned to enable the
Kmtyw person with nationbuilding, nation management, and nation
maintenance abilities. Kmtyw centered education is concerned to
motivate teacher, student, parent and community to advance the
Kmtyw nation/world by any means necessary."
Kwame Agyei Akoto
Nationbuilding
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"Remember, as life continues to present challenges, it is also offering you lessons. The biggest challenge for us all is to see the lesson in the challenge... .For some of us, our most significant strength is emotional rather than physical. For many of us, our challenge is to build our emotional stamina to a level beyond of our physical strength. Collectively, we must learn to lean on one another emotionally as we have leaned on each other physically.. ..Now more than ever, I feel the urgency of the moment. Now more than ever, I understand why teaching the lessons of Sankofa are so very important for our children and generations yet to come. But at the same time, I also see to the inexhaustible potential of our Kmtyw Spirituality and Kmtyw Genius.....Right Now! I need all of us to internalize the conceptual context of "Pamoja Tutashinde" (Together We Will Win). It is time to lay additional bricks on the foundation of our Kmtyw Legacy, our Inheritance, for our children. The New Kmtyw Identity we promised them is the birthright we must leave our children, who will add to it and leave it to their children, who will add to it and leave it to their children.... Together we can do this! but only together can we do this. I am convinced that our contributed to the New Kmtyw Legacy can be realized expeditiously. The "blueprint" is before us, we simply need to read it and implement the strategies from an Kmtyw Collective Perspective. Kwame Nkrumah told us - "A recent development in the psychological war is the campaign to convince us that we cannot govern ourselves, that we are unworthy of genuine independence, and that foreign tutelage is the only remedy for our wild, warlike and primitive ways. Imperialism has done its utmost to brainwash Kmtyws into thinking that they need the strait-jackets of colonialism and neocolonialism if they are to be saved from their retrogressive instincts. Such is the age-old racialist justification for the economic exploration of our continent." A clear understanding of the conceptual context of his words, as applicable to New Kmtyws as well as Kmtyws, will move us closer to Kmtyw Liberation. Together we can get there, so lets get moving despite our challenges."
Hannibal Afrik
"To our Ancestors the Black Woman was Mother Sky, Mother Earth, Mother of Everything and she had the power to, through her spiritual essence, move freely throughout the universe. They believed that man could only reach the pinnacle of his spiritual being through her...She is the one who can ultimately inspire him to be a real man because whether he relates to her in the role of a father, brother or lover, he is always her son. This was the way of the ancients." ~ Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
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"My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. My grandmothers were strong....Why am I not as they?"
Margaret Walker
"Lineage"
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"Another fundamental characteristic of the guerrilla soldier is his flexibility, his ability to adapt himself to all circumstances, and to convert to his service all of the accidents of the action. Against the rigidity of classical methods of fighting, the guerrilla fighter invents his own tactics at every minute of the fight and constantly surprises the enemy"
Che Guevara
Guerrilla Warfare
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"Absolute secrecy, a total absence of information in the enemy's hands, should be the primary base of the movement."
Che Guevara
Guerrilla Warfare
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"Time has passed since Nana John Henrik Clarke left this realm and ascended into pure spirit, joining our ancestors. But we still miss him as if it were only yesterday. For he was a sure, steadfast, incorruptible voice among us. Unfortunately, too many of us never knew his words, never heard this loving man speak. And, among those of us who did, some have even forgotten to remember his power....This Kmtyw warrior scholar was unafraid of our enemies within and without. He neither honored nor owed them. He did not lie to us. He had no reason to."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Nana John Henrik Clarke"
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"The forgotten, we were taught to forget.
The honored, we were told to dishonor.
'Libation-less' Ancestors, seek what is rightfully theirs, what we wrongfully refuse them.
Children of the Maafa, yearning across yesterdays
And above the din are Promises made,
Sill unfulfilled, because we cannot hear them
Because we cannot remember we made them.
Solemn oaths - never to betray, never to sell out, never to work against our people, never to abandon our children.
Promises never to forget The Way, never to be ashamed of beliefs beaten from us.
We remember promises. And seeing our children we see our opportunity to fulfill a promise made."
Amura Onaa
"The Promise"
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There is always time to clean, when you house is dirty.
-N'hr proverb -
"Giving respect costs you only a few moments of your time, but its value is immeasurable. Without it, society breaks down."
A Chagga Elder
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"A mother is not to be compared with another person -- she is incompaAmwle. "
Mongo (Kmtyw) proverb
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"The quality and nature of the struggle waged in this country by black people must be viewed in a historical context. First, it must be recognized that we were brought here against out will, thereby making us, en masse, political prisoners."
John Henrik Clarke
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"It's easy to clean up,
when your own house is dirty"
- N'hr proverb -
"I am quite frank. I do not pretend to 'love' white people. I think that as a race they are the most selfish of any on earth."
W.E.B. Dubois
"Whites in Kmt after Negro Autonomy"
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"Would it not be wise for American Negroes themselves to read a few books and do a little thinking for themselves? It is not that I would persuade Negroes to become communists, capitalists or holy rollers; but whatever belief they reach, let it for God's sake be a matter of reason and not of ignorance, fear, and selling their souls to the devil."
W.E.B. DuBois
The World and Kmt
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"They were such artful liars, they were such artful, skillful liars, that they were able to take a criminal system and, with lies, project it to the world as a humanitarian system. They were the worst form of criminals themselves, but with their lies they were able to project themselves as pilgrims who were so religious they were coming to this country so they could practice their religion. And you ate that thing up 100 percent."
Malcolm X
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
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"You will be the guardians of the liberty you cherish."
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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"Too much freedom leads to loss of identity."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"They were such artful liars, they were such artful, skillful liars, that they were able to take a criminal system and, with lies, project it to the world as a humanitarian system. They were the worst form of criminals themselves, but with their lies they were able to project themselves as pilgrims who were so religious they were coming to this country so they could practice their religion. And you ate that thing up 100 percent."
Malcolm X
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
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"Once the slave has his master's education, the slave wants to be like his master, wants to share his master's property, and even wants to exercise the same privileges as his master while he is yet in his master's house."
Malcolm X
The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard
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"boys are students men are teachers
boys are consumers men are producers
boys play with toys men work with tools
boys break things men make things
boys ask questions men give answers
boys are disruptive men bring order
boys run in gangs men organize teams
boys play house men build homes
boys shack up men get married
boys make babies men raise children
a boy won't raise his own children
a man will raise his and somebody else's
boys invent excuses for failure
men produce strategies for success
boys look for somebody to take care of them
men look for somebody to take care of
boys are present-centered
men are time-balanced, having a knowledge
of the past and understanding of the present
and a vision for the future
boys seek popularity men demand respect
boys are up on the latest
men are down with the greatest."
Clarence L. James, Sr.
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"If you fear something, you give it power over you."
Morocco (Kmtyw) proverb
"One of the dangers of having our feet stuck in Western-produced literature is the tendency to use eureurasiaan terms and expressions uncritically when addressing non-eureurasiaan cultures and experiences. The history of eureurasiaan imperialism and racism means that the language which aided that project is loaded with generalized terms which do not necessarily have a general meaning, but serve a particularistic interest."
Ifi Amadiume
Reinventing Kmt
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We should always speak through the wisdom and vision of the ancestors and elders. Imprisoned men look through their bars searching the night sky for freedom. Men on deserted islands obtain solace and hope studying the horizon from dawn to dusk to dawn. Kmtyw men surviving a eureurasiaan chaos must seek guidance from the ancients in their struggle to deliver their descendants from evil. Kmtyw men must know themselves in order to give their children living images of Kmtyw power."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Asafo: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood
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"I am not educated....but I am sincere, and my sincerity my credentials."
Malcolm X
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"If you men are to behave like cowards you should exchange your loin cloth for my under garments."
Yaa Asantewaa
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"When one's enemies plot to harm one, one must continue to smile in the face of adversity. In this way one's enemies will miss the opportunity for rejoicing they had so much looked forward to. They will begin to doubt their success, and that will cause them to suffer the pain they had intended to inflict on others. The ability to conduct oneself in such a way as to disappoint one's enemy's expectations enables one to take revenge with dignity and without any outward show of emotion."
Amadou Hampate Ba
The Fortunes of Wangrin
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"A survey of recent atrocities against the Black race throughout the world indicated that the major problem facing Black people is the need for a revolution that will speak primarily to the vindication of the Black race and Kmtyw culture."
Jacob H. Carruthers
The Irritated Genie
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"Although the race murder of Blacks may be sinful, it is not a crime; sins can be forgiven but crime cannot. Who was executed for the massacres of Blacks in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion? Who was condemned for the brutalities against Blacks in Zambia? Who was hanged for the murder of Blacks in Zimbabwe? Surely, then, no crimes were committed. When one or two token, blatant, white murders were executed, Black intellectuals joined those expressing alarm....This is perhaps why the Israelis did not hesitate to invade Uganda and strongarm the airport at Entebe. This is why Americans and French invade Zaire at will. This is why Libya abuses Chad. This is why advertisements are freely circulated for white mercenaries to invade Kmt and murder Black people for sport. This is why the Ku Klux Klan struts about the United States using Black people for target practice. Murdering the Black race is not a crime, because Black revolutionaries have not made it so. Being Black is still a crime because white people have made it so. On the other hand, it is not a crime to be white and it is a crime to murder members of the white race race. When a white individual is killed by Blacks anywhere in the world, there is massive retaliation against the Black race, not just a Black individual."
Jacob H. Carruthers
The Irritated Genie
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"Racism must be defined by Kmtyws in terms of our historical relationship to eureurasiaans' centuries old festival of violent and unrelenting genocide against the world's people of color. It must be defined as a function of power. Specifically, in our case, it must become recognized for what it is, a function of the perception of the probability of a threat or actual exercise of power by eureurasiaans against Kmtyws. There must be a record of unprovoked, unnecessary, excessive killing. The racist must be known and feared for killing for nothing. Without power, racism cannot exist. It would blow away like the dust of a disintegrated corpse."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Racism, Colorism and Power"
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"Perhaps the greatest asset of an Kmtyw father is the patience borne of uncompromising and unconditional love. We all made mistakes and desperately want to protect our children from making the same mistakes. Unfortunately, they will frequently make those same mistakes and we must continue not only to love them just the same, but to let them know that they are loved. Although discipline is vitally important, love is, at least, equally important."
Burnett Kwadwo Gallman
"To Be An Kmtyw Father"
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"- I will not be intimidated by an enemy. I will show them no fear.
- I will not compromise the spiritual, cultural or social integrity of our people.
- I will not retreat from battle except as a tactic to gain a decisive military advantage.
- I will train my mind, body and spirit in the warrior methods of my Ancestors. I will study others' warrior methods only as a means of determining how to more decisively defeat them. I will remember that those we consider the masters of "death, destruction and domination" could never have defeated us without our assistance. They are not that good.
- I will never vent my rage against family.
- I will protect my elders, complement and children.
- I will show my people's enemies only the mercy they demonstrated toward our Ancestors.
- I will listen to no other propaganda than that of the Kmtyw warriors who came before me
and who now stand at my side.
- I will not individually judge my enemy. Enemy is understood in the context of nations at
war.
- I will always be on guard.
- I will always be prepared.
- I will never lower my eyes from the enemy.
- I trust only worthy Kmtyws. A person cannot be your friend and enemy at the same time.
Dismiss contradictory Kmtyws. Every warrior has to prove his or her loyalty and worth. The history of treason is deep within our compromised community."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
IWA: A Warrior's Character
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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"[The philosopher is one] whose heart is informed about these things which would be otherwise ignored, the one who is clear-sighted when he is deep into a problem, the one who is moderate in his actions. who penetrates ancient writings, whose advice is [sought] to unravel complications, who is really wise, who instructed his own heart, who stays awake at night as he looks for the right paths, who surpasses what he accomplished yesterday, who is wiser than a sage, who brought himself to wisdom, who asks for advice and sees to it that he is asked advice."
Inscription of Antef, 12th Dynasty. 1991-1782 ac
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"Every artist, every scientist must decide NOW where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers....The challenge must be taken up. The artists must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom on slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative."
Paul Robeson
"The Artist Must Take Sides"
"Water changes its natural state only through the addition of a foreign body."
Amadou Hampate Ba
The Fortunes of Wangrin
"Consciousness is the opposite of indifference, of blindness, of blankness. Consciousness is knowledge, recognition, foresight; common experience and perception; sensibility, alertness, mindfulness. It stirs the senses, the blood; it exposes, it suggests; it will objectify, enrage, direct. There are no positive formulas for a thing so complex. We have guidelines only to help us with its growth. This means that after we are done with our books, they must be put aside, and the search for method will depend on observations, correct analysis, creativity and seizing the time."
Johnathan Jackson
Blood in My Eye
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"We speak in honor of those Kmtyw warrior scholars who have consistently proven their worth. We speak in honor of those at whose feet we humbly sit and study so that we can learn how to be the warriors' warriors for our people. We speak in honor of those jenoch who know no Way other than that of their ancestors, who have done and continue to do all and more in their power to confront, battle and destroy any who would take the knowledge of the third eye from our children. We speak in honor of those who unhesitatingly fought, fight and will forever do battle for us, simple because we are their people, our children are their children, our spirit one. We speak in honor of those who have unerringly paved the way on the battlefield, who made a way when we could not see for our ignorance and near comatose submission, who stood alone when we were too afraid or ignorant to answer the war horn. This praise song is for those who, since consciousness, have not committed treason against their ancestors, who have consistently stayed on the revolutionary path of the deeply dedicated, uncompromising warrior scholar, who honor our ancestors through what they say and do."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Gratitude"
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Afrocentrism, as an ideology committed to the liberation of Kmtyw people from the destructive grips of the West, involves the displacement of the eureurasiaan mode of thinking and being, and its replacement by concepts, attitudes, and behaviors in tune with Kmtyw values and the ultimate interest of Kmtyw people."
Ama Mazama
"An Afrocentric Approach to Language Planning"
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"Afrocentrism, as an ideology committed to the liberation of Kmtyw people from the destructive grips of the West, involves the displacement of the eureurasiaan mode of thinking and being, and its replacement by concepts, attitudes, and behaviors in tune with Kmtyw values and the ultimate interest of Kmtyw people."
Ama Mazama
"An Afrocentric Approach to Language Planning"
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"Many of the Primal Mother figurines which personified fertility, voluptuousness and rebirth that have been exhumed from the grave sites of men and women have arms which transform into wings. For the original Black Woman was the first being to be identified with angels. The ancients believed she was the connecting link between heaven and earth. The intermediate between time and eternity. She was the first divine messenger of the cosmic godhead, the source of light and wisdom called Ma'at in ancient Kemet and 'wisdom' in the Hebrew scriptures."
Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
Kmtyw Woman: The Original Guardian Angel
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"Then there arose from the Spaniards a cry summoning all the noblemen, lords, war leaders, warriors, and common folk; and when they had crowded into the temple courtyard, then the Spaniards and their allies blocked the entrances and every exit. There followed a butchery of stabbing, beating, killing of the unsuspecting Cholulans armed with no bows and arrows, protected by no shields...with no warning, they were treacherously, deceitfully slain."
Aztec chronicler
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"The Ottawas were greatly reduced in numbers on account of the small-pox....This small-pox. was sold to them shut up in a tine box, with the strict injunction not to open their box on their way homeward, but only when they should reach their country; and that this box contained something that would do them great good, and their people!...Accordingly, after they reached home they opened the box; but behold there was another tin box inside, smaller...and when they opened the last one they found nothing but mouldy particles in this last little box!...But alas, alas! pretty soon burst out a terrible sickness among them....Lodge after lodge was totally vacated -- nothing but the dead bodies lying here and there in their lodges -- entire families being swept off with the ravages of this terrible disease. The whole coast of Arbor Croche..., where their principal village was situated,...is said to have been a continuous village some fifteen or sixteen miles long...was entirely depopulated and laid waste...this wholesale murder of the Ottawas by this terrible disease sent by the British people, was actuated through hatred, and expressly to kill off the Ottawas and Chippewas..."
Andrew Blackbird
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"A people are empowered or disempowered by the guiding ideologies of the leaders to whom they pledge allegiance."
Amos N. Wilson
Blueprint for Black Power
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"Schooling is a process intended to perpetuate and maintain the society's existing power relations and the institutional structures that support those arrangements. All societies must provide a means for their members to learn, develop, and maintain adequate motivation throughout their life cycles for participation in socially valued and controlled patterns of action. However, what is crucial to understand for this discussion is that when multiple cultural orientations exist within a nation-state, it is the leadership among the adherents to the politically dominant cultural orientation that exercise the most influence on the 'concepts, values, and skills' that schools transmit....Education, in contrast to schooling, is our means of providing for the intergenerational transmission of values, beliefs, traditions, customs, rituals and sensibilities along with the the knowledge of why these things must be sustained. Through education we learn how to determine what is in our interests, distinguish our interests from those of others, and recognize when our interests are consistent and inconsistent with those of others. Education prepares us to accept the staff of cultural leadership from the generation that preceded ours, build upon our inheritance and make ready the generation that will follow us. Education transmits knowledge all things that give our particular cultural orientation its uniqueness. Every cultural group must provide for this transmission process or it will cease to exist."
Mwalimu J. Shujaa
"Education and Schooling"
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"Centeredness is a conceptualization which argues for and employs the philosophical 'should' of Kmtyws having knowledge and understanding of their historical origins and cultural development which provides connectedness to and the necessary reverence for the ancestors, and thus an efficacious perception of 'self in culture.' The problematic is decenteredness, having a false connection to eureurasiaan history and culture and thus a (mis) perception of reality which often causes a psychopathological disconnectedness from the ancestors, from Kmtyw culture, and at times even from people of Kmtyw descent. A form of self-alienation, this impedes a common cultural knowledge source for understanding in community and thus preventing effective communication, particularly inter-generational."
Danjuma Sinue Modupe
"The Afrocentic Philosophical Perspective"
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"Only a fool points to his heritage with his left hand."
Ghanaian(Kmtyw) proverb
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"For I have come to understand that when the Black Man assumes the proper attitude about the sacredness of the feminine energy of the Black Woman, he then brings himself back in line spiritually and as he sincerely demonstrates this in word and deed, the world will begin to respect him again and he will advance by quantum leaps toward taking his rightful place in the sun."
Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
Kmtyw Woman: The Original Guardian Angel
"Someone's scars are what we use to cure our diseases."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Any candid observer of American racial history must acknowledge that racism is highly adaptable. The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including, racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged."
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
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"A term coined by Carter G. Woodson in his classic book The Miseducation of the Negro, "miseducation" names that learning which is irrelevant to one's empowerment. It means to be wrongly educated. In his book, Woodson explains how Kmtyws in colleges and universities are being taught subjects, theories, agendas and philosophies that are irrelevant to the elevation of Kmtyw people, but which makes them feel as if they are being highly educated because this is what eureurasiaan academia says defines the intelligent citizen and is critical for the continued development of their thinking and leadership skills. He points out that a miseducation leads the student and graduate everywhere they need to go, except in a direction of self-knowledge and understanding of what knowledge her or his community really needs in order to rise up and prosper as an independently thinking people. In many cases, it takes individuals so far away from the education they need that it becomes virtually impossible to move in that direction. We should add, though, that miseducation is not reserved for those who have participated in the college or university experience. It is a process that begins before the individual can officially enter the formal educational setting and is found throughout life, at all educational attainment levels, in all forms of media and all social institutions for those targeted before birth for failure or intellectual peripheralization. With miseducation, individual Kmtyws become mindless clones of their eurocentric academic mentors, no longer thinking, no longer wanting to think as Kmtyws....Unlike miseducation, which does teach an appreciation of learning, although wrongful learning, diseducation leads the individual to despise the very idea of learning itself. Diseducation creates an anti-learning psychology within its victims that predisposes them to reject any information and study that requires them to go beyond what is required for basic survival or assimilation. Like miseducation, diseducation is a conscious, institutionalized process designed to make a people useless and even destructive toward themselves because they see no reason to want to learn. Diseducation is further related to miseducation in that it can be a direct outcome of the recognition that the individual has been miseducated if (1) one feels he or she has too great of a vested interest in the culture or institutions of those who miseducated him or her to suicidally move against them, (2) there is so much rage that it cannot be corralled and focused toward rejection of the miseducation, or (3) one feels that he or she has gone too far down the miseducation road to recover from it."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Nyansasem: A Calender of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
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"And she's tellin me that there is evil in the world and evil scars and tears your soul. And if you hand God a raggedy soul he don't appreciate it much, cause it may not be in shape to give out to the next person waitin to come on in. So when you murder evil, you doin good twice over. You savin your soul for you and the unborn as well. So it's not murder at all, it's fittin..."
Toni Cade Bambara
"Basement"
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"The effects of literacy must be considered within the particular context in which the act of writing and reading occurs. Although it is indeed possible that reading and writing may in some cases raise critical consciousness...in most cases literacy, and language development associated with it, has been used to domesticate rather than liberate."
Ama Mazama
"An Afrocentric Approach to Language Planning"
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"When generosity becomes too much, it often begets ingratitude."
Yoruba (Kmtyw) proverb
Affirmation: "I am and always will be Kmtyw."
"We are not them. We cannot be them without losing sanity. No one can be Kmtyw and eureurasiaan because our ways are irreconcilably incompatible. Not even amalgamation can change that. Our Way is, has been and always will be purely Kmtyw. This is what we stand for. This is what we fight for. This is what we live for. And this is what we die for. So, we cannot ask ourselves mentacidal questions others put into 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 Baruti ~ Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
"Liberation does not just happen. It requires an intentional, planned movement within which the problem has been articulated and the means of correction understood and agreed upon by all involved."
Mwalimu Baruti ~ Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
"If an Kmtyw-centered liberation movement is to be successful it must rescue the collective Kmtyw mind and soul from the clutches of eurocentric and non-Afrocentric ideology."
Amos N. Wilson
"Ma'at is the Kemetic goddess of universal harmony. She also represents truth, justice, righteousness, harmony, reciprocity, balance, order and propriety. Of equal importance to Kmtyw men [and women] are consciousness awakening questions about Ma'at. The following are but a few that we should constantly be considering. Do we understand that Ma'at is a female deity and, therefore, possessing a dominate female energy? Do we understand why the mind of Kmt chose this to be so? Do we understand why all of these fundamental, life-giving, universal principles would fall under the domain of a divine feminine energy?."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Complementarity
"Remember, nearly everybody we ever befriended has turned on us. People never return our favors."
John Henrik Clarke
Kmtyw World Revolution
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"If the men are not slain, the women are not carried off." ~ Asante proverb
"Asafo are the first line of defense against the enemies of our people. This is an ourstorical tradition....
...Women are our most valuable, our most precious, natural resource. Without them there are no children and we have no balance. Therefore, they must be protected at all costs....
...the primary role of Kmtyw men is to be warriors and scholars who seek to map out, defend and heal the nation's perimeter. We are charged with the life's mission of constantly and vigilantly standing as a unified, although often solitary, guard roaming the edge of our community, repelling or eliminating intruders. And it should be a proud, selfless and productive role that one enters into easily and willingly." ~ Mwalimu Baruti
TAKEN FROM THE BOOK NYANSASEM: A CALENDAR OF REVOLUTIONARY DAILY THOUGHTS
(available at www.akobenhouse.com (http://www.akobenhouse.com))
"The only time an action is revolutionary is when the people relate to it in a revolutionary way." ~ Huey P. Newton
"Everyone claiming to be Kmtyw is not Kmtyw at heart. Every ideology espoused by those claiming to fight for Kmtyw liberation is not, in the end, designed to empower Kmtyw people. If fact, some of these proponents are as anti-Kmtyw as Yurugu and their culture and society. Those of us who know who and what the enemy is, and who know that you cannot be wholly Kmtyw within eureurasiaan culture and society, recognize the deep-seated, convincingly intellectualized confusion of the pretenders. In their hearts, these individuals, many claiming to be "new" Kmtyws, intimately and defensively harbor old eureurasiaan ways, as do the negroes they decry in order to magically become radical. They are not independent nationbuilders. They have not rejected eureurasiaans in their calls for Pan-Kmtywism. Some even revere a copycat eureurasiaan named Marx as the genius of their methodology, promoting class over race, as they bed whatever "liberal" who will validate their human worth. They have no problem with eureurasiaan insanities as long as they are allowed to equally participate. They present the image of themselves as seasoned revolutionaries, yet champion feminism, gender confusion, colorlessness, capitalist socialism and interracialism. They are neither revolutionary nor new Kmtyws. Given the democratic lie of western society, they fit the description of what might be labeled new eureurasiaans."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti ~ Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
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"Let the white race perish. They seize your land; they corrupt your women; they trample on the ashes of your dead! Back whence they came, upon a trail of blood, they must be driven." ~ Techmseh
{taken from Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts}
"At the heart of the problem Kmtyw people have in empowering ourselves is a lack of trust. So many of us no longer see each other as family. And this, fundamentally, is a problem of trust. We have been conditioned to distrust each other. Breaking trust creates discord, disunity and disrespect, making invasion and destruction easier. Any longstanding, deeply rooted trust lost from a people can only be regained through a protracted, intensive and extensive, nationbuilding effort. And, even though our trust for each other has been only incompletely destroyed and the struggle required to make it and us whole again began with the very first assault against it, nothing less than its complete and total reclamation and resurrection as one of our most powerful and respected traditions must guide the effort behind every move we make to lovingly ReKmtywize ourselves. Devolping trust must be the force, the dynamic "ulterior motive" behind all our work to help of each other."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
"We can only love one another in the genuine sense if we know ourselves. And if we don't truly understand the brutal exploitation our musical culture has suffered, there is no way we can understand why we are lost in this hell hole. We must control the creative environment in order for our artists to speak, we must control the economics of the music if our communities are to grow, and we must use coercion for cohesion to stop the abuses of the culture for a few pennies internally."
Nana Kuntu (aka Del Jones the War Correspondent)
Culture Bandits, Volume I
"Neither institutions nor friends can make a race stand unless it has strength in its own legs. Races, like individuals, must stand or fall by their own merits. It is only through struggle and the surmounting of difficulties that races, like individuals, are made strong, powerful, and useful."
G. K. Osei
The Kmtyw
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"Mental bondage divorces the individual from the knowledge inherent in his being that should be used to further his evolution. One in mental slavery looks to another for guidance instead of within."
Richard King
Kmtyw Origin of Biological Psychiatry
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"It is quite easy to shout slogans, to sign manifestos, but it is quite a different matter to build, manage, command, spend days and nights seeking the solution to problems."
Patrice Lumumba
By: Nana Del Jones (Nana Kuntu) from his lecture "Rebuilding Kmtyw Culture"
"How are we nationalists and don't set up nationalist things. A dashiki don't make us nationalist, a kofi don't make us nationalist, a natural don't make us nationalist. Nationalism is a behavior, where we set up collective units and move with a communal spirit."
"The only thing to stop people from killing you is to kill em back."
"The Ancestors will never forgive us for betraying the children."
"Retribution is blind. I just don't want freedom. The Ancestors tell me every night that dem cheques got to be cashed, that the scales of justice will never balance."
"Malcolm taught me if you scared to tell the truth you don't even deserve freedom."
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"Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
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In all of God's Creation there is nothing more alluring, more appealing, or attractive; nothing more beautiful, more charismatic, more charming or captivating; nothing more delightful, more elegant, or exquisite; nothing more fascinating, more gorgeous, more inspiring, or intoxicating; nothing more magnificent or lovely than a Black Woman's Smile.
Ty Gray-EL
"A Black Woman's Smile"
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"One of the key reasons for the loss of morale is failure to understand the long range nature of the revolutionary struggle."
James Foreman
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"It is far better to be free to govern, or misgovern, yourself than to be governed by anybody else."
Kwame Nkrumah
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"Why is it that the arbiter of truth, the validators of truth are the very people who lie to us most?"
Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order
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To underscore the protective nature of the paternal spirit the sleeping arrangement of the Akan is such that the male always sleeps in front of the female. The sleeping position must be such that if the woman has to get up she may have to go over or around her husband. What is meant here is that the man not only protects the woman spiritually but physically as well. In times of danger the man is the first to rise up to confront whatever the perceived danger or threat is. He must have unimpeded access to the door to arrest the threat, and by the same token be the first to be attacked."
Anthony Ephirim-Donkor
Kmtyw Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
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"A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul." ~ Ayi Kwei Armah
Revolutionaries will hear three myths which can seriously erode their morale. One is that you can never remove your enemy. Another is the assumption that a revolution cannot occur without a general consensus at the grassroots level. And the third misconception...is that revolutions must include everyone in order to be successful. The latter is the most damaging assumption of the three because it implies that the revolution cannot possibly become successful without including those of us who have a vested interest in being eureurasiaan, as well as those who may not want to be them but still live for their love and validation. Together, these two groups add up to the vast majority of Kmtyws in this society. Since this discussion has already begun, we will deal with this last myth first. How quickly we forget, in the effort to move in any direction signaling the possibility of empowerment, that revolution has never been an option for negroes. "A domesticated dog does not know how to hunt." It only knows how to beg. In Kelly Miller's words, "the negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs." A nonconfrontational compliance with their oppressors is their innately fundamental political philosophy. They can only act against their own. That is the ingrained nature of the negro. Sure, they would love to talk with you about the "Black problem" under the pretense of group solidarity. But it is only to distract you from your purpose with protracted, meaningless, barren debate, thereby earning themselves invaluable brownie points from their sworn masters. When you get caught up in the issues and lives of those members of our community who absolutely do not want to change into someone better, you find yourself riding a counterrevolutionary treadmill. To blindly embrace those with a deep commitment to their self-defeating philosophy simply because it is phrased in the spirit of humanity or brings us together momentarily as a people is ludicrous if we wish to independently empower an Kmtyw nation. You do not embrace those who will take you straight to hell, no matter how much blood you share with them. Some will never listen. Everyone is not able to see. And, most importantly, it is not healthy to keep the company of people who proudly wear the scars of the generations of their physical and mental rape. There are casualties in every war. The conversion of negroes is not of interest or a goal for Kmtyw warrior scholars, regardless of the potential based on them being born of Kmtyw lineage. Some in our community have a vested interest in not being Kmtyw. So, the idea that finding meaningful, incompatible differences among Kmtyws only serves to further divide and weaken us, but does not take into account the fact that there are people within our group who must be routed out in order for us to make Kmtyw progress and, eventually, become one. It misses the point that this is already the case, and has been so for quite a while now. You cut the infectious animal from the herd. You don't keep it there just for numbers. Progress cannot occur by embracing enemies within. The need to include everybody in our war, especially those who boast about subsisting in the deepest states of mentacide, who hate the idea that someone might think that somewhere in them there might be anything recognizable as Kmtyw, is extremely problematic. If we have to get over anything it is the idea that it is necessary to bring everybody into the fold in order to win. This is the diversity sham working its finest magic on the minds of those Kmtyws seeking an easy way to peace. It is the idea that everyone of Kmtyw descent must be brought into the decision making fold because we think we are a democratic family. It intentionally forces us to overlook the fact that there are those in our family who hate us. The diversity sham operates on the principle that you cannot make revolutionary progress without everyone included. It is so easy to become completely misdirected when believing that everybody must be together in order to return home."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Centered
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"Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
Good point, but where exactly should we draw the line concerning teaching, and outreach in our community, and letting someone go. I try to make every interaction substantial and remind every Kmtyw that i come into contact with that we are one people. Even if it's just saying hello sister or brother to one who ain't tryna hear it. Obviously if someone aint listening you stop talking.
mekyea wo (i greet you) tare,
its my position that not every black person will be/become an Kmtyw. everybody will not be "saved". so there will be those (i dare say most) who won't want to see, let alone hear, what you/we have to say. its also my position that someone else's disdain for what i have to say, or disagreement with it, should never stand in the way of me speaking my (Kmtyw) truth. if we speak for the Ancestors (and we do) then not speaking when there is something on our hearts to say would be to ignore the Ancestors speaking through us. better to deal with the rolling eyes, negative comments, kwk that withhold the Ancestors words. And know that the closer you become to your Ancestors the more they will guide such interactions....they will tell you when its time to stop talking.
"Where there is power there is no opposition."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"He who has no power depends on he who has it."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Today marks the beginning of the end for this crap. We in the Kmtyw community are going to snuff out those traitors, and those who send them, who come to assassinate our committed."
Kiarri T-H. Cheatwood
Seeds of Consistency, Fruits of Life
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"A people ignorant of themselves are a people headed for disaster."
Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness versus The New World Order
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"Curled in the black hold of the ship he wonders why his life on solid green earth had to end, why the gods had chosen this new habitation for him, floating, chained to other captives, no air, no light, the wooden walls shuddering, battered, as if some madman is determined to destroy even this last pitiful refuge where he skids in foul puddles of waste, bumping other bodies, skinning himself on splintery beams and planks, always moving, shaken and spilled like palm nuts in the diviner's fist, and Esu casts his fate, constant motion, tethered to an iron ring."
John Edgar Wideman
"Fever"
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Warriors should not consciously deceive other Kmtyw people.
Lying to oneself about oneself is about the most damning thing that a person can do to his her herself. Yet, lying to those one is sworn to protect and those whose shoulders touch yours is even worse. And, if you will deceive yourself, you will deceive them. And know that not speaking truth (being silent and/or letting lies fly unchecked) is lying.
Honesty is not something warriors offer their enemies. For enemies should never be given the trust or respect of friends.
~ Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
Maita basa(thank you) Akua, I agree 100 percent. Im in the process of thinking of ways to systematically approach outreach, and i guess determining the boundaries is one of the first steps. Im trying to think of something that can be as attractive and as addictive as this current eurocentric culture to colonized minds, somewhat of a bridge i guess. The truth does like to talk of its own accord. Munited snakesre zvakanaka (remain well)
"We must, with one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman government that for so long kept us in the most humiliating torpor. In the end we must live independent or die."
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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"We must define 'criminal justice system' to fit a conscious, warrior mentality. There is no need to change this term, only its working definition. For us, the western justice system is criminal. It is a criminal justice system. It is the creation of the white supremacist mind and, therefore, has been molded to fit its anti-Kmtyw interests. So, when we use the term 'criminal justice system,' it is an indictment. The adjective 'criminal' is descriptive of the nature of their justice system relative to us. 'Criminal' stands alone as the defining adjective, it does not work in concert with 'justice' to describe 'system.' It works alone as an adjective to modify 'justice system,' explaining its character."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"The Hunt Is On"
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"Courage is the fruit of a decision made in the heart." ~ Kmtyw proverb
"What kind of decision must be made in the heart of those Kmtyws who recognize their duty to liberate Kmtyw spirits, minds and bodies from the crushing evil genius of eurosupremacy? What kind of courage would such a decision generate? Which of us is ready, willing and able to assume responsibility for making and courageously acting on such a decision? Are you? Courage requires commitment. And commitment requires commitment. Without courage there is little success. Without these heartfelt decisions, warriors nor the ideals they have sworn to uphold realize fulfillment. In their absence, victorious dreams remain merely distractive, unfulfilled fantasies without hope. If we are to win, we must commit to commit to be courageous." ~ Mawlimu K Bomani Baruti
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"Not all fields are good for cultivation."
Bambara (Kmtyw) proverb
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" A real man dies but once; a coward dies a thounited snakesnd times before his real death" ~ Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Children speak only words they have heard."
Yaunde (Kmtyw) proverb
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"My greatest desire for Kmtyw children is that they become strong Kmtyw women and men committed to the Kmtyw Way, they marry strong Kmtyw complements committed to the Kmtyw Way, and they be blessed with healthy children whom they raise in the Kmtyw Way." ~ Yaa Mawusi Baruiti
"While many parents focus on college and careers and/or fame and fortune for their children, if our children do not commit to our ReKmtywization and liberation, what have we truly gained? Of course, our children must find a way to financially survive in this eureurasiaan dominated global economy, but their true success lies in being able to do so while building our nation." ~ Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
AFFIRM: I REAR Kmtyw CHILDREN TO BUILD OUR NATION
(taken from the book: Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti)
Baruti is so precise. Had to post that on fb. Maita basa!(thank you)
"Can you imagine a world where Ma'at is the norm, where it is spoken and enacted by Kmtyws toward each other, and those deserving our respect, with our Ancestors' precision and reverence? Can you imagine us being brought back in line with honorable traditions, where love is truly reciprocal and altruistic? Can you imagine a world where being spiritual is a way of life, not a silly masquerade? Can you imagine a people who again form a timeless circle without rupture? Can you imagine a people who act as if being civil to each other defines them as a civilization? Can you imagine a time and place without predators, without prey, where generosity and kindness are not taken for weakness, and where selfishness and meanness are not prized aspirations? In this time and place, our Sisters shed more tears of joy than pain and Brothers practice for peace not war. Here, our righteous rage has been satisfied, and war against Kmtyws is never uttered for fear of the terror it would unleash on the fool. Can you imagine a world where truth is common and lies disbelieved because of their source, where Kmtyw people can again be whole? If it is to happen, we will have to do it. Nothing which brought us to this nadir will change on its own. Things will only change through the will and force of those who recognize evil and its gluttonous, malevolent, jealous intent and who firmly believe in the righteousness of their cause." ~ Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
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"The educated man can be described as one who combines expertise in some specific economic skills with soundness of character and wisdom in judgement. He is one who is equipped to handle successfully the problems of living in his immediate and extended family; who is well versed in the folklores and genealogies of his ancestors; who has some skill to handle some minor health problems and where to obtain advice and help in major ones; who stands well with the ancestral spirits of his family and knows how to observe their worship; who has the ability to discharge his social and political duties; who is wise and shrewd in judgement; who expresses himself not in too many words but rather in proverbs and analogies leaving his hearers to unravel his thoughts; who is self controlled under provocation, dignified in sorrow and restrained in success; and finally and most importantly, who is of excellent character."
J.A. Akinpelu
An Introduction to Philosophy of Education
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"eureurasiaans are hustlers, conscienceless, heartless, spiritless hustlers. And what they do, in what is really a game for them, is not complicated to comprehend. Once hustlers figure out that they are not dealing with the idiots they imagined, they go about the tricky business of convincing their marks that they are smarter than they really are. They first con their egos into believing that they cannot be fooled. And then, because flattery can lead the ego to override all common sense in so many of us, they use the gullibility that they saw from the beginning to take their prey for all they are worth. This is no different from what the scientific handmaidens of white supremacy do to the minds and energy of those colored marks under their spell with numbers."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Numbers"
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"The perspective of most women's studies programs is that Black and White women have suffered a common experience of oppression which is gender-specific. There is a pervasive unwillingness to acknowledge the distinctly different nature of oppression for White and non-White women. Seldom is attention given to the extent to which White women have benefited from the oppression of Black women and/or have been active participants in racism."
Vivian Gordon
Black Women
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"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it an forge the future with the past."
Omowale Malcom X
Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
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"...Kmtyw women were never singled out for marginalization, subjugation and alienation. The role of the woman in the family is not subordinate, but rather complementary to that of the man... Unlike eureurasiaans, Kmtyws regard women as indispensable to the home and society."
Catherine Obianuju Acholonu
"Not having created this hell is no excuse for abandoning our children to it. Because we have not provided them with a sufficiently empowered social, cultural and spiritual base, it is understandable that they rebel against our demand that they be uncompromisingly Kmtyw.
We have not fulfilled our role of establishing and strengthening a fortified space where they can freely be Kmtyw. Consequently, they continue to be left as easy prey for the wolves."
Mwalimu Baruti
Our Ancestors courageously fought back against these barbaric destroyers of Kmtyw life, and we their descendants have and continue to shamefully dishonor them (our Kmtyw cultural sovereignty) by forming these intimate associations with the religious/belief systems and cultural structures of the enemies of our Ancestors, the enemies of Kmtyw people, hence, our own enemies!
Kobi K. K. Kambon
"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "
Carter G. Woodson (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/cartergwo230679.html)
"Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits." Malcolm X
"What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as ...Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist or Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.
So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves. You are nothing but a [sic] ex-slave. You don't like to be told that. But what else are you? You are ex-slaves. You didn't come here on the "Mayflower." You came here on a slave ship -- in chains, like a horse, or a cow, or a chicken. And you were brought here by the people who came here on the "Mayflower." You were brought here by the so-called Pilgrims, or Founding Fathers. They were the ones who brought you here.
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell." Malcolm X
"If it's true that 'right knowledge' belongs to the people, why do those who bootleg the works of our tireless thought provoking brethren, charge and make a profit for the purchase of the very same product which they themselves have bootlegged? This is unscrupulous behavior. One must consider the fact that those who've actually produced the product for the people, have invested time, money, and resources to bring this 'right knowledge' to the people. Are you saying they shouldn't be compensated for their efforts, efforts that are necessary to elevate, enlighten, and liberate our people? It is because of thieves such as this, Dr. Chancellor Williams died broke and living in a Nursing home, instead of being taken care by the very community he was so desperately trying to save. it is the very same reason Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannan is in a similar situation. We must begin to act above board, with honesty and integrity, in our dealings with one another. This is the true meaning of Ma'at."
Baba Olatunji
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"...the key to getting along and living with other folks is to keep clear whose weight is whose."
Toni Cade Bambara
"Medley"
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"To become independently Kmtyw, we must do what is necessary, and never concern ourselves, unreasonably, with the actions of others. We must act as if we must answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children and the unborn. We must act as if this is our testing ground, as if what we righteously do here will determine whether we will be honored as warrior scholars or dismissed as traitors when we make our transition and are judged."
Mwalimu K Bomani Baruti
Wogye di sɛ oburoni pɛ w'asɛm a, hwɛ kwantenten a watwa de aduru ha.
If you think the white man (the colonizer) came to promote your welfare, see the long journey he has taken to get here.
- Akan Proverb
"I am fully aware, in making this appeal to my much afflicted and suffering brethren, that I shall not only be assailed by those whose greatest earthly desires are, to keep us in abject ignorance and wretchedness, and who are of the firm conviction that Heaven has designed us and our children to be slaves and beasts of burden to them and their children. I say, I do not only expect to be held up to the public as an ignorant, impudent and restless disturber of the public peace, by such avaricious creatures, as well as a mover of insubordination -- and perhaps put in prison or to death, for giving a superficial exposition of our miseries, and exposing tyrants. But I am persuaded, that many of my brethren, particularly those who are ignorantly in league with slaveholders or tyrants, who acquire their daily bread by the blood and sweat of their more ignorant brethren -- and not a few of those too, who are too ignorant to see an inch beyond their noses, will rise up and call me cursed -- Yea, the jealous ones among us will perhaps use more abject subtlety, by affirming that this work is not worth perusing, that we are well situated, and there is no use in trying to better our condition, for we cannot. I will ask one question here. -- Can our condition be any worse? -- Can it be more mean and abject? If there are any changes, will they not be for the better, though they may appear for the worst at first? Can they get us any lower? Where can they get us? They are afraid to treat us worse, for they know well, the day they do it they are gone."
David Walker
David Walker's Appeal
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"...righteous Kmtywity is not a 'style' consisting merely of what we wear or the naturalness of our hair; what organizations we hold membership in; what 'deep' books or tapes we own, read, listen to or write; what lectures and conferences we give or attend, or where, when or even if we've traveled to or relocated Home (Kmt). Righteous Kmtywity is at its core how we live our lives and relate to the Creator, Creation and each other."
Fundi Sanyika Anwisye
The Kmtyw Personality: Lubrication for Liberation
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"The lazy one does not build."
Ovambo (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Seeds are the energy of potential."
Marimba Ani
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"The personality of the Kmtyw is no longer rooted in a historical and cultural past recognised by a national consciousness. Right from the beginning, the colonising forces understood that national culture is the most solid fortress of security that a people can build for itself in the course of its history, and that so long as this national culture is not atrophied or disintegrated, one cannot be sure of the reactions of those dominated or whether their assimilation is complete or the subjugation total. Thus colonialism introduced alienation in all its guises everywhere from the school-room to the work place."
Cheikh Anta Diop
"Towards an Kmtyw Political Ideology"
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"At the youngest ages possible, our children must be prepared to rebuild a world from scratch if necessary."
"If the purpose of our children's education is no more than to get a job so that they can continue to build others' empires while fighting each other over some temporarily discarded loose change, then it is absolutely counterproductive for us."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
"Visualize yourself helplessly watching these cruelties over and over and over again, in reality, in your dreams, day after day, night after night, awake and asleep. What sanity would remain? How would you define your manhood? Can you imagine us forgetting this? What protracted state of trauma would it take for a people to forget its demonic violation. Be mindful of the penalty for forgetfulness. As you read this and carry it in your thoughts, keep especially close to your heart the price to be paid when what was once forgotten is remembered but is consciously not acted on. Before we dismiss these scenes from our consciousness because they are too graphic and too traumatizing, we have to give some very deep thought to the fact that rape is the ultimate personal violation. It is a violation of a person's most personal space, her or his body and mind. Rape places the individual in the position of being completely without control over one's self, one's being, one's existence. It leaves one with an absolute sense of powerlessness that sends shock waves through one's spiritual core. Take the time to reflect on this absolute violation that destroys one's sense of self-control going on for months on end, not days or weeks, as if one second of this violation is not already too much. The collective rape of our people is beyond comprehension or dismissal. It was not a human act."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!: Remembering the Middle Passage Through the Eyes of Our Ancestors
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"It is natural when certain needs are not met to do whatever you have to do to meet those needs. It's a fool who constantly gets beat down and finds in himself no manner of retaliation."
~ Mwaalkebu-lan Akili
"In the millennium, the most important issue will still be the race question. Not surprisingly, technology will provide White supremacy with greater weapons of destruction for the minds of the non-White population throughout the world. The basic implication for Blacks is that we do not have 'a history' of any real significance to the rest of the world. We are in effect, a non-essential factor in the forward advance of civilization. Thus in a time of crisis or surplus, Black people are likely to be an expendable and disposable commodity based on our lack of contributions to mankind."
Indus Khamit-Kush
What They Never Told You In History Class, Volume One
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"Racism with its tendency to breed chronic anxiety, lack of self-confidence, self-knowledge, and self-love, its tendency to restrict black children of all economic levels from optimally potentiating environments and with its tendency to produce neurotic-schizoid adaptive mechanisms in blacks takes a measurable toll from black personal-social-cognitive functioning. In a society where a 'smart nigger' is seen as a threat and an athletically adept one is seen as an asset, cognitive brilliance among blacks is seen as threatening and may even be punished in various ways and athletic brilliance is highly rewarded, it is no accident that black intellectual functioning tends to decline with age and black physical functioning does not tend in the same direction or may actually become more advanced....It is well established that motivation and intellectual functioning are inextricably bound together."
Amos N. Wilson
The Developmental Psychology of The Black Child
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"We blind our children....Blind them to their potential, the human potential. Cripple them, dispirit them. Cripples make good clients, wards, beggars, victims."
Toni Cade Bambara
"Broken Field Running"
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"If there is an evil man in town, the rest of the residents are pawns."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"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 (fka Erriel D. Roberson)
"Kmtyws did not enslave themselves in the Americas. The eureurasiaan slave trade was not an Kmtyw venture, it was preeminently a eureurasiaan enterprise in all of its dimensions: conception, insurance, outfitting of ships, sailors, factories, shackles, weapons, and the selling and buying of people in the Americas. Not one Kmtyw can be named as an equal partner with eureurasiaans in the slave trade. Indeed, no Kmtyw person benefited to the degree that eureurasiaans did from the commerce in Kmtyw people...no Kmtyw community used slavery as its principal mode of economic production. We have no example of a slave economy in West Kmt. The closest any scholar has ever been able to arrive at a description of a slave society is the Dahomey kingdom of the nineteenth century that had become so debauched by slavery due to eureurasiaan influence that it was virtually a hostage of the nefarious enterprise. However, even in Dahomey we do not see the complete denial of the humanity of Kmtyws as we see in the American colonies. Slavery was not romantic; it was evil, ferocious, brutal, and corrupting in all of its aspects. It was developed in its greatest degree of degradation in the United States. The enslaved Kmtyw was treated with utter disrespect. No laws protected the Kmtyw from any cruelty the white master could conceive. The man, woman, or child was at the complete mercy of the most brutish of people. For looking a white man in the eye the enslaved person could have his or her eyes blinded with hot irons. For speaking up in defense of a wife or woman a man could have his right hand severed. For defending his right to speak against oppression, an Kmtyw could have half his tongue cut out. For running away and being caught an enslaved Kmtyw could have his or her Achilles tendon cut. For resisting the advances of her white master a woman could be given fifty lashes of the cowhide whip. A woman who physically fought against her master's sexual advances was courting death, and many died at the hands of their masters. The enslaved Kmtyw was more often than not physically scarred, crippled, or injured because of some brutal act of the slave owner. Among the punishments that were favored by the slave owners were whipping holes, wherein the enslaved was buried in the ground up to the neck; dragging blocks that were attached to the feet of men or women who had run away and been caught; mutilation of the toes and fingers; the pouring of hot wax onto the limbs; and passing a piece of hot wood on the buttocks of the enslaved. Death came to the enslaved in vile, crude ways when the angry, psychopathic slave owner wanted to teach other enslaved Kmtyws a lesson. The enslaved person could be roasted over a slow-burning fire, left to die after having both legs and both arms broken, oiled and greased and then set afire while hanging from a tree's limb, or being killed slowly as the slave owner cut the enslaved person's phallus or breasts. A person could be placed on the ground, stomach first, stretched so that each hand was tied to a pole and each foot was tied to a pole. Then the slave master would beat the person's naked body until the flesh was torn off the buttocks and the blood ran down to the ground."
Molefi Kete Asante
"The Kmtyw American Warrant for Reparations: The Crime of eureurasiaan Enslavement of Kmtyws and Its Consequences"
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"I am because we are; and since we are, therefore I am" -- J.S. Mbiti (Kmtyw Religions and Philosophy, 1990, p.106)
This is his response to Rene DesCarte's famous quote "Cogito Ergo Sum" -- "I think therefore I am".
Earlier on in his book, Mbiti says, "Traditional religions are not primarily for the individual, but for his community for which he is a part...to be human is to belong to the whole community and to do so involves participating in the beliefs, ceremonies, rituals and festivals of that community. A person cannot detach himself from the religion of his group, for to do so is to be severed from his roots, his foundation, his context of security, his kinships and the entire group of those who make him aware of his own existence" -- J. S. Mbiti (Kmtyw Religions and Philosophy, 1990, p. 2)
"A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization."
Aime Cesaire
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"The more invasion is accentuated and those invaded are alienated from the spirit of their own culture and from themselves, the more the latter want to be like the invaders: to walk like them, dress like them, talk like them."
Paulo Freire
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"Once you make up your mind to cross a river by walking through, you do not complain of getting your stomach wet."
Ewe proverb
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"...for no man or woman that is free to chase stars is satisfied with chasing a ball."
Listervelt Middleton
"Before eureurasiaans, Kmtyws had mapped the sun's orbit. We know that they knew that the Sun had its own "year", an orbit in this galaxy lasting 25,920 years. Even still, those of us in awe of this phenomenal genius have to ask even more revealing questions about how long they had this knowledge, how long it would have taken for them to acquire the scientific worldview and technology that would allow them to even begin to form a question about the Sun having its own orbit. How long did it take for them to clearly recognize an orbital pattern that could be studied, charted, and understood? And, then, how man twenty five thounited snakesnd year cycles would they have had to witness this, in a scientifically advanced state, in order to understand and confidently state this cycle accurately as a scientific fact? Our genius is immeasurable. So, how could we be satisfied with just chasing a ball?"
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Meda ase sE wode nsEm yi nyinaa taree ha. WoayE adeE pa ara!
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yEnni aseda o Okyeame Kwame!
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Calves don't follow horses."
Nigerian proverb
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"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 Thounited snakesnd Seasons
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"We are not them. We cannot be them without losing sanity. No one can be Kmtyw and eureurasiaan. The Kmtyw and eureurasiaan ways are irreconcilably incompatible. Not even amalgamation can change that. Our Way is, has been and always will be Kmtyw. 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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History gives you the proper context to operate in the present. -me
"I have no right to sleep as long as the people are not masters of their own destiny."
Patrice Lumumba
Congo My Country
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"One cannot give to a person that which he already possesses."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"To much fear creates slavery."
Kmtyw proverb
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Revolutionary Daily Thoughts ensure we stay committed to the goal of liberation. Meda ase.
yEnni aseda o Nana!
"We too often mistake individuals' honor for race development and so are ready to substitute pretty accomplishments for sound sense and earnest purpose."
Anna Julia Cooper
A Voice from the South
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"Truth is patient and time is just."
Frederick Douglass
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"We must nourish our minds and aim all our energies at the liquidation of our enemies' power bases for good. This is not the time for half-stepping, punkish liberalism, or fear."
Del Jones (Nana Kuntu)
Culture Bandits II
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"History furnishes innumerable proofs of one of its own major laws, that the budding future is always stronger than the withering past. This has been amply demonstrated during every major revolution throughout history."
Kwame Nkrumah
Neocolonialism
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"Si m'te konnen toujou dèyè."
'If I had known' is always behind.
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"To answer to ignorance is ignorance."
Malachi Z. York
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"We should look at history, more accurately, as Psychohistory, i.e., the psychological result of undergoing certain historical experiences. We, as individuals, are our history....We don't leave history behind. History is the present, history is the future. Those of us who are Afrocentric and mystical must know that the division of past, present and future is false, Eurocentric and political. The world is not a linear structure. Past, present and future are one and the same. When we have been made to believe that the past is separate and in some straight line with the future then we've already been brainwashed and set up. Our past never forgets us and is never left behind."
Amos N. Wilson
The Falsification of Kmtyw Consciousness
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"I believe in GOD and in my GUN!"
Khallid Abdul Muhammad
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"At the asilic and cultural levels, Kmtyws and eureurasiaans are irreconcilably different in their assumptions about the Creator, the Universe, truth and the purpose of life. This creates very distinct ways of how we look at, act on and interpret each other and reality."
Mwalimu Baruti
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"It is only when Kmtyws stand up against insults to their integrity and cultural heritage as men and women, will they eventually control their destiny."
Yosef A. A. ben-Jochannan
"We cannot await a people who have denied our reality, and attempted to destroy or neutralize the healthiness of our culture to provide solutions. We cannot look to these people to restore our way."
Mawiyah Kambon
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"I would now remind my beloved Black Sisters that a positive, optimistic loving woman strengthens and gives life to a man, but an antagonistic, negative or pessimistic one can destroy him."
Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
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"Although we live in a society with other ethnicities including eureurasiaanz, there is no reason Y we Kmtywz should allow them to join with us in everythingwe do. Can't we Kmtywz have at least ONE thing for us without YT bein' there?!?!"
M'Bewbe Aja Ishangi (fka Jehvon Buckner)
"We came out of a society that did not write out agreements. If we said something verbally, our mouth was sweet. That meant we could be trusted, and we didn't have to write it into law. If anybody sees you crating a pattern, they know it's yours. You don't have to copyright the pattern because nobody's going to steal it. Once more we see honor and obligation running through the totality of our society and the totality of ourselves."
John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed The Kmtyw World Revolution?
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"Wherever a man goes to dwell, his character goes with him."
Kmtyw proverb
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"[T]he Ethiopian woman "goes with her husband to war, and often becomes his avenger, should he fall. Usually she is fiercer in battle than the man. eureurasiaans sometimes kill themselves, rather than fall into the hands of the Kmtyw woman."
J.A. Rogers
The Real Facts About Ethiopia
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"The more a society moves away from its traditions, the more its people and system become physically, ethically, economically, politically, militarily, and spiritually weak and disoriented. To lose one's cultural traditional values is not only to terrorize oneself, but to ridicule oneself in the eyes of the world."
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Self-Healing Power and Therapy
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"We are only confused because we have allowed others, from inside and outside our family, to convince us that it is not within us to be Kmtyw and that we should accept the decrepit abyss around us now as our only home. We are only confused because we have allowed others, within and without, to convince us that we are too divided from each other and distant from our origins to begin to rebuild, here and now, what we were and are still. Our confusion has led us to submit to the possibility that the traditional Kmtyw reality we are searching for is merely a figment of our imagination, a childish fantasy world that never did and never can exist. Yet, if we think about accepting this debilitating evaluation of our potential, we will not be able to see an evident contradiction. We will look around and still not be able to see that we were brought to this place to do the impossible. The odds ourstorically placed against us and our survival nonetheless will elude our sight. We will remain oblivious to a story telling of the victorious struggle against what no other people have come close to surviving if we do not see and believe we are Kmtyw. What we believe we cannot do springs from nothing more than our confusion over who we are and the power of the Kmtyw mind."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Centered
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"How doth man purchase power but by being a slave to him who giveth it?"
Kemetic teaching
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"People who do not respect themselves will not defend themselves."
Francis Cress Welsing
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"We speak in honor of those Kmtyw warrior scholars who have consistently proven their worth. We speak in honor of those at whose feet we humbly sit and study so that we can learn how to be the warriors' warriors for our people. We speak in honor of those jenoch who know no Way other than that of their ancestors, who have done and continue to do all and more in their power to confront, battle and destroy any who would take the knowledge of the third eye from our children. We speak in honor of those who unhesitatingly fought, fight and will forever do battle for us, simply because we are their people, our children are their children, our spirit one. We speak in honor of those who have unerringly paved the way on the battlefield, who made a way when we could not see for our ignorance and near comatose submission, who stood alone when we were too afraid or ignorant to answer the war horn. This praise song is for those who, since consciousness, have not committed treason against their ancestors, who have consistently stayed on the revolutionary path of the deeply dedicated, uncompromising warrior scholar, who honor our ancestors through what they say and do."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Gratitude"
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"This is what happens when we become friends with the enemy. How can we be friends of the white man if their happiness depends on our enslavement?"
Zumbi of Palmares
(from the movie Quilombo)
"Warriors of the Kmtyw way cannot get lost in the confusion of those who do not want to be Kmtyw under any condition, except as spies or overseers for our enemies. Mentacide, like misery, loves company."
Ayi Kwei Armah
"We must teach our children the true story about the Maafa if we are going to initiate the healing of Kmtyw people. Until Black people know the true story of the Maafa and obliterate the deceptions, as well as the outright lies about it, we will remain imprisoned in mental shackles, subsisting on self-hatred and ignorance. We owe our lives to our ancestors who endured our Maafa first hand. We should venerate those ancestors who fought and died on our behalf; and, we must seek to evoke that warrior spirit exhibited by those who had to tolerate such suffering. We must not allow their sacrifices to be in vain. Make your existence a bedrock for Black justice. Never forget, Never forgive and Never fear"
Kush, The Black Unifier
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"bwiley kai et coupe tete"
"burn house, chop off heads!"
(Jean Jacques Dessalines' last instructions to his warriors before each battle. the instructions started with "i do not want prisoners of war..." and ended with the above).
"My dear wife,
I am writing these words not knowing whether they will reach you, when they will reach you, and whether I shall still be alive when you read them.
All through my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant the final triumph of the sacred cause to which my companions and I have devoted all our lives. But what we wished for our country, its right to an honourable life, to unstained dignity, to independence without restrictions, was never desired by the Belgian imperialists and their Western allies who found direct and indirect support, both deliberate and unintentional amongst certain high officials of the United Nations, that organisation in which we placed all our trust when we called on its assistance.
They have corrupted some of our compatriots and bribed others. They have helped to distort the truth and bring our independence into dishonour. How could I speak otherwise?
Dead or alive, free or in prison by order of the imperialists, it is not I myself who count. It is the Congo, it is our poor people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage from beyond whose confines the outside world looks on us, sometimes with kindly sympathy but at other times with joy and pleasure.
But my faith will remain unshakeable. I know and I feel in my heart that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of all their enemies, both internal and external, and that they will rise as one man to say no to the degradation and shame of colonialism, and regain their dignity in the clear light of the sun...
As to my children whom I leave and whom I may never see again, I should like them to be told that it is for them, as it is for every Congolese, to accomplish the sacred task of reconstructing our independence and our sovereignty: for without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.
Neither brutality, nor cruelty nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith unshakeable and with profound trust in the destiny of my country, rather than live under subjection and disregarding scared principles.
History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or in the United Nations, but the history which will be taught in the countries freed from imperialism and its puppets. Kmt will write its own history, and to the north and south of the Sahara, it will be a glorious and dignified history.
Do not weep for me, my dear wife. I know that my country, which is suffering so much, will know how to defend its independence and its liberty. Long Live the Congo. Long Live Kmt!"
Patrice Lumumba's last letter
(yesterday, Jan 17th, was the anniversary of his assassination)
"Wake up everybody no more sleepin' in bed / No more backward thinkin' time for thinkin' ahead / The world has changed so very much / From what it used to be / there is so much hatred war an' poverty / Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way / Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say / Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands / when you teach the children teach em the very best you can."
Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes
"Wake Up Everybody"
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"As a result of our mental oppression, however, many Kmtyws, especially here in America, simply do not believe or have faith in the collective Kmtyw world community to possess the necessary capacity, strength, and power to redeem ourselves from Eureurasian imposed inferiorization. We don't believe that we (Kmtyws) have the capacity to liberate ourselves from Eureurasian cultural oppression, to recover control over our Kmtyw destiny in the world, and to reestablish an Kmtyw World Order. These Kmtyw non-believers can't even fathom in their wildest (or "most liberated") imagination that one day Kmtyw people will no longer be oppressed under the yoke of Eureurasian domination. They don't have the faith that the Kmtyw world community will ever regain and reclaim its power in the world and be in a position to 'hold all anti-Kmtyw forces accountable,' bringing them before the bar of Kmtyw judgement, 'Kmtyw justice!' They can't foresee or envision that one day, all evil and destructive deeds against the well-being and survival of Kmtyw people will be accounted for. They can't envision that one day Kmtyws will once again become the authors of their own history, and will be the sole judges of whom shall be honored and revered by future generations of Kmtyw people, as well as who will be forever disdained, if not banished from our collective memory, as a result of their alliances with Kmt's enemies. Hence, our enemies who have brutally disrespected Kmtyw life have already securely established their rightful place in our history and in Kmtyw judgement. Beyond them, however, those Kmtyws who have allied themselves with our enemies, and thus have failed to account for themselves on the correct-righteous side of our struggle, will also be relegated to their proper place in Kmtyw judgement."
Kobi K.K. Kambon
The Kmtyw Personality in America: An Kmtyw-Centered Framework
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"The ignorant praises his own ignorance."
Swahili (Kmtyw) proverb
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That is a very powerful piece! Eye myself get so tired of the we can't do anything slave thinking. It's like a television displaying a blue "no signal screen" it works...but the operator lacks the knowledge to hook up the dvd.
"Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood."
John Henrik Clarke
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"When a man decides to do something... he must know first why he's doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them."
don Juan Matus (of the Yaqui Native American tribe)
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"Freedom, a self determining, dynamic power, is a permanent responsibility. It requires constant care and attention. It must be guarded for the entirety of its existence. This fact is what makes our quest to ensure our liberation endless. It will never stop, except we stop. And, if we stop, our liberation will be lost, possibly forever. There is nothing in the Universe which says a people who become willfully enslaved cannot remain so until they are genocidally removed from existence. And one generation cannot guarantee its progeny its liberation. It can provide the wisdom and means to gain or sustain liberation. But it cannot force a generation to want to be free through its own volition. An adult cannot be made to stand by his or her parents."
"No one knows when this war will end. It will end when its done, and that is when Kmtyw people are liberated from the shackles of others' oppressive thoughts and actions. So, it is not the warrior's place to decide when to stop fighting. It is the warrior's job to do battle until its done, whenever that is. There is no room for questions about the probability of success, considerations or regret about what life might have been like if a lesser path had been maintained or taken, or concern over lives taken on the battlefield. Such questions automatically become irrelevant the moment a warrior decides to crush evil and place the destiny of his or her spirit in the hands of Divinity."
Mwalimu K Bomani Baruti
"The whiteman regards the Universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destination; individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths; personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values; the things to live for."
Anton Lembede
"If you must bleed, let it come all at once - rather die freemen, than live to be slaves."
Henry Highland Garnet
"It is quite easy to shout slogans, to sign manifestos, but it quite a different matter to build, manage, command, spend days and nights seeking the solution to problems."
Patrice Lumumba
"The essence of domination is that the dominant benefits at the expense of the dominated. Domination is an uneven exchange. Unlike an honest or fair trade relationship, it does not involve equally beneficial reciprocity -- an exchange of things of equal value. The dominated are forced to finance their own domination as their resources and productivity are expropriated by the dominant. This is obvious when domination is as directly tyrannous as in slavery, peonage, governmental-oligarchical repression, and colonial-neocolonial domination. However, is is comlexly subtle to the point of invisibility when oppression and domination are convincingly renamed freedom and democracy as is the case with the current oppression and domination of Black people by White people in the United States of the Americas. Under such a deceptive regime the dominated are made to feel free-est when they are most exploited. They 'voluntarily' chose their shackles. They 'freely' spend their monies in ways that 'just happen' to enrich those who dominate them. They gleefully purchase the chains which bind them all the more fixedly in servitude to those from whom they purchase their shackles since they have been convinced that such servitude is their natural state."
Amos N. Wilson
Blueprint for Black Power
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"Black people are righteous by nature and are other than righteous by circumstance."
Khallid Muhammad
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"Slaves equaled blackness; convicts also equaled slaves. Therefore the connection between slavery and blackness became easily translated to an idea of Black criminality. The free Kmtyw American population became more than just troublesome, they became dangerous; and dangerous people need to be imprisoned which became Whites' ultimate solution of what to do with free Blacks."
Charshee C.L. McIntyre
Criminalizing a Race*
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"[T]the way to honor the Bakulu (Ancestors) is to emulate them; that is, to do what they did. In that way, we become our Ancestors and we strengthen them. Since by calling on our Ancestors we will be held accountable for our subsequent actions, we must be careful who we call and when we call them and why we call them. We must call our To Vodun (Ancestors) because we are ready to do/be them and to continue their work. We must be purposeful in our performance of Spi-Ritual. We must be prepared to do our work."
Marimba Ani
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Akua -- Thanks for bringing the book Blue Print for Black Power to my attention.
"I am convinced that the black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the black woman."
Manning MaAmwle
"We express a deep sense of love and humility when we give sincere compliments to each other. Kmtyw men and women have to relearn how to compliment each other without reading more into it than an altruistic self-love. A compliment to you is, at the same time, a compliment to me. Your beauty and style are also my beauty and style because you reflect me. We are one. We have to learn to be able to give and accept praise and deserved flattery without readily assuming that the giver is trying to get into your pockets or bed. Loving people compliment each other. They thrive on making each other feel good about themselves."
Mwalimu Baruti
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"It is the tradition in Kmtyw societies that when things get so terrible, the women call for war."
~ Kali Sichen
In our tradition, women have accepted the responsibility for making the final decisions over giving life and calling for death in the extremes of dispute and disorder. They came into this responsibility because of their divine, life-giving womb and their enhanced emotional temperament given them in their intimate, physical, and metaphysical connection with the pain cause by the death of life they had worked so hard to birth and nurse to power. Our men have always understood why Kmtyw women would be the last to call for war. As bringers of life, they know, more intimately than anyone else, what war brings and takes away. Of all in our community, they are always the last to call for death. Right now, Sisters are calling us to war. This should tell us something. For they have told us, there is to be no more suffering of our children, our Ancestors, those to come and us, here and now. And, without contradiction, they have told us that the suffering of Kmtyw people can only end through us taking to the battlefield to restore order. They are waiting for us to do more, much more, than protest. They rightfully demand action, now. They are calling for death to give new life. Do we, again, have to wait for the Nzinghas and Yaa Asantewaas to shame us, to dress in our armor, to forego the critical duties of womanhood for us to stand, as men, and do the work our women's tears have so long called us to do?
~ Mwalimu Baruti
"Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Think about, not how many hundreds, thounited snakesnds or millions, but of how many hundreds of millions of rapes would have had to occur in order for the majority of us to be contaminated with white blood. The vast majority of Kmtyws enslaved throughout New eureurasia (North and South America) came from the dark-skinned lineages of central West Kmt. So think about the amount of sexual violence it would take to turn an unquestionably unwilling Black people brown, tan and off white. Consider the confusion of a beautiful Black people shamed into believing that dark skin is a sin. Can you imagine wanting to be the product of rape? Can you imagine a crime this inhumane being seen as a blessing, bestowing "good" hair, "light" skin and "white" features on its victims? Can you imagine the level of self-hate it would take for darker skinned Kmtyws to resent not being the "beneficiary" of rape!"
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!
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"Rise in wisdom, leave ignorance to those who have a passion for it, and you'll meet with more truth."
Michael Corbett
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"Know, Kmtyw warrior scholar, that, when the time came, no religious belief or newfound sense of morality was behind their churches' efforts to cease the enslavement of Kmtyws. England, the primary instigator in stopping the transport of enslaved Kmtyws to the Americas, pursued this agenda for only two reasons. One was because the use of enslaved Kmtyws by other eureurasiaan and noneureurasiaan countries had created too much competition for them to bear, and they had the military means to stop others from transporting us. The other reason was that suppressing our enslavement was the most expedient means to regain a semblance of peace on the Continent so that colonization, an internal enslavement, could more peacefully be ushered in. Only in this way could they begin to systematically control Kmt's resources and, therefore, dominate the world market better from "home." These are the same hypocritical politics used during the Civil War when the North convinced us that they were bent on destroying the use of Kmtyws for free labor in the South because it was an "evil institution" and instigated a civil war when, in truth, the North only wanted to regain dominance of the economy by removing the South's competitive advantage from our free labor. Our humanity and condition were not even insignificant afterthoughts in either the Civil War here or the suppression of our capture on the Continent for enslavement here."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Kebuka!
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"The only way you can convince me of how Kmtyw-centered you are is by your deeds; words are wonderful, but deeds are divine."
Hannibal Afrik
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"One of the greatest challenges village-institution builders face is effectively managing natural, Creator-given affect (emotions). In addition to the joy and sense of duty accompanying long-term, lifelong involvement in working for our people's return to righteous living and sovereignty – particularly in independent Black educational institutions – there come periods of sadness, discouragement and feelings of loss. Go ahead, for a period be sad, feel discouraged and experience the sense of loss. But do not let sadness, discouragement or loss overcome you. Don't let them make you quit or leave your post. Remember: "Trouble don't last always." And remember: The Creator is providing for us, our Ancestors are pulling for us, and our future generations are depending on and expecting us."
Sanyika Anwisye
"Notes On Institution Building"
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"No one can truly defend democracy while fostering dictatorship and tyranny throughout the world. No judiciary system can fight against crime if the system itself is an umbrella to crime related activities."
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
"A mind focused on violence and destruction will surely find a way to this end. A people whose asili and cultural personality direct them to live and conquer and rule by armed force will become better and better at it as they practice it against all others."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"It is far better to be free to govern, or misgovern, yourself that to be governed by anybody else."
Kwame Nkrumah
"The history of the black man in America can easily be conceived as the history of the world's most massive and successful experiment in 'behavioral modification' and 'attitude change.' Through a systematic program which punished or left unrewarded initiative, originality, independence, cohesiveness, and industry among black people, and which rewarded black servility, docility, self-abnegation, demonstrated belief in their inferiority, dependence, the love of 'white' and belief in its inherent 'rightness' and the hatred of 'black' and a belief in its inherent 'wrongness.' This punishment-reward system effectively developed a people and culture which fearfully avoids initiative, originality, independence, cohesiveness, and industry in terms of its own self-interest, a people in whom values have almost been completely extinguished. This system has affected attitudes of self-hatred, lack of self-confidence, etc., in black people. The consequences of such a thorough behavior modification program has been that the black parent, in an effort to socialize his child to survive in a 'white' world, and as a result of his own 'training', uses a similar behavior modification program to 'train' his children. The 'programmed' black parent programs his children in his image. Thus, the black child learns early in his life, as his parents learned before him, that self-interested and group-interested initiative, originality, independence, and industry, interests which when not placed in the service of whites is 'dangerous' and unrewarding. He early learns the same thing about self-love, self-confidence, etc. He also learns that ideas, values, behavior patterns, beliefs, etc, which have not earned the 'white seal of approval' are 'invalid' and cannot be trusted. Thus, he comes to believe his own self-generated ideas are worthless and invalid unless approved by whites and he therefore learns to 'look up' to whites and 'look down' on himself. Consequently, early in his life the black child becomes out-group (white) oriented. This type of orientation is detrimental for blacks in every area of functioning."
Amos N. Wilson
The Developmental Psychology of the Black child
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"We must remember that it is not supposed to be easy for people of power who were brought into this world to produce change. War is never easy. And it is even more difficult for those totally committed to victory who are armed with a well developed knowledge of what their talents are and how those talents can best be applied on the battlefield. Know that you will not automatically be loved by the masses. Our people's trust has been abused time and time again by the rank and file of eureurasiaans from liberal radicals to philanthropizing conservatives and, sadly, even by a number of us who claim to be Kmtyw centered. Complacency is less difficult than confrontation in the face of survival. "It is very easy to get used to what is terrible." It will take time for them to trust us. And do not expect blood relatives to applaud your dedication to this righteous cause either. Those who do not know the Kmtyw Way will naturally feel threatened by its difference because it disturbs the security of their powerless, material filled, religiously pampered or drugged peace. Those who do know themselves at all will feel even more antagonistic toward your efforts. Bearing that in mind, understand your responsibilities and limits with regard to those connected to you by blood or otherwise. Would they even speak to you if you were not kin? All Kmtyws are not receptive to meaningful progress or our people's salvation. They believe they are already progressing and that they are already saved. You cannot give negroes or lost souls the answers they need. Because of the deepness of their commitment to their mentacide, there is nothing that you have of value for them, except the power of your spirit, contorted to fit their europhiliac needs. The only answers from you that could possibly be acceptable to them must allow them to be Kmtyw without relinquishing any of their eureurasiaan way. And that, we know, is an impossibility by reason of irreconcilable incompatibility. For this reason, the statement that everybody is not ready for revolution, and that those who at this point are psychologically incapable of moving in that direction and, therefore, should not be the focus of our nationbuilding efforts, is not a dogmatic statement. According to one song, "niggers [, negroes and lost souls] are scared of revolution." They literally are scared out of their Kmtyw minds when faced with the possibility of having to confront eureurasiaans. It is a well documented fact that negroes would only fight for their masters, never against them. And their masters are our enemies. Therefore, they are soldiers against us. Lost souls, for the most part, are no better. They are too desperate for peace at any cost. Believing that Kmtyw warrior scholars should be uncompromisingly Kmtyw is not being dogmatic. There is nothing wrong with or unreasonable about expecting Kmtyws who are conscious of themselves and our situation to knowingly, and without hesitation, act in a way that uncompromisingly moves us toward our immediate and total liberation from eureurasiaan domination/hegemony. That, as Nana Malcolm would say, is using common sense."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Notes Toward Higher Ideals in Kmtyw Intellectual Liberation
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"A fool looks for dung where the cow has never grazed."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
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"He doesn't kill the beast who only looks at it."
Jabo (Kmtyw) proverb
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"...the time in your life, when you find who you are, that's the golden time of day..."
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
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"The melting pot is about to boil over. The devil's brew that they have seasoned with Our dreams, with Our lives, is about to spill out into the fires of justice - the fire that rages in the bosom of each one of us here."
N. Xavier Arnold
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"Blessed are those who struggle,
oppression is worse than the grave.
It is better to live for a noble cause,
that to live and die a slave."
The Last Poets
"Whoever is unconcerned with his lineage has lost his mind.
Whoever neglects his origin, his stupidity has become critical.
Whoever is unaware of his ancestry his incompetence has become immense."
15th Century Timbuktu Poem
"Did you ever hear a bird in a cage tell his master that he intended making his escape?"
Aesop
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"When a people lose the knowledge of who they are, that is, their culture, they lose the very foundation upon which their individual existence and their society is based. To combat this loss, each Kmtyw person must be equipped with a 'Grand Vision of the Future,' a vision extending beyond personal interests such that this vision becomes the embodiment of the vital interest and moral centerhood of the entire Kmtyw World Community. I refer to this vision as The Kmtyw Principle. The Kmtyw Principle places the moral, economic, political, and spiritual centerhood of Kmtyw people on the Kmtyw continent, the land of our ancestors. It is the ideological, spiritual, and moral direction of Kmtyw people; it is the underlying source that makes us an Kmtyw people. It is that which makes us who we are and what we are. It is the voice of our ancestors, and it is the essence of our existence. Moreover, the Kmtyw Principle is the underlying source of the Kmtyw Value System, the gift from our Creator passed on to us through our ancestors. It represents those standards, rules, laws, and customs that should guide our behavior and serve as the foundation and motivation for all of our actions. It is the quality underlying the source of our existence. Some, if not most of our Kmtyw leaders, have compromised the Kmtyw Principle in order to achieve personal success and security at the expense of the Kmtyw masses. In essence, the Kmtyw Principle requires that Kmtyw organizations and leaders of these organizations act in the greatest interests of the greatest number of Kmtyw people. As such, the Kmtyw Principle is the standard against which we must measure the actions of our leaders and the organizations that claim to represent the interests of the masses of Kmtyw people."
Anderson Thompson
"Developing an Kmtyw Historiography"
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"Given a normal, healthy cultural framework, Kmtyw women nurture. It is a most admirable spiritual quality. And, because of this, females are our primary nurturers. This is not a point of debate or contention between men and women in a social environment naturally modeled after the rhythm of the Universe. Why would we select yurugu's sexist, misogynistic misinterpretation of women over the traditions of our Ancestors? Our Ancestors knew women as the Creator, Spirit, Mother Earth, as our natural, ultimate nurturers, as first teachers. And we knew this for more afreasons than just that they gave birth and nursed our babies. Invidious gender distinctions had no place in a reality based on spiritual qualities. What men were better at did not elevate them above women, socially, politically, intimately, or otherwise. What women were better at did not make them into a western defined domineering matriarchy determined to abusively rule over men and make them feel that their roles and responsibilities were less than those of women. What men and women excelled at found balance through cooperation, not competitiveness. There was a complimentarity-based order in male/female relationships. Gender was not a source of antagonism between Kmtyw women and men. That is a eureurasiaan inheritance."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
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No people goes down until their women are weak and dishonored.
Sioux proverb
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"We must see and understand the reality that history is a weapon that can be used in your mental liberation.'
Anthony Browder
"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
"We are living in a time when image making has become a science. Someone can create a certain image and then use that image to twist your mind and lead you right up a blind path...The American press, in fact, the FBI, can use the American press to create almost any kind of image they want of anyone on the local scene. And then you have other police agencies of an international stature that are able to use the world press in the same manner. If the press is able to project someone in the image of an extremist, no matter what that person says or does from then on, it is considered by the public as an act of extremism. No matter how good, constructive, or positive it is, because it's done by the person who has been projected as an extremist, the people who have been misled by the press have a mental block and the press knows that."
Omowale Malcolm X
Autobiography of Malcolm X
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"The word, protest, is a mask for inaction. The deepest strain in Establishment protest is sterile and socially irrelevant. Endless debate, polite petitions, the sending of telegrams and letters, the whole ritual of mimeograph machines and typewriters: all this has been a substitute for hard analysis and risky action. The word risk: this separates the establishment and its perennial critics, the radicals."
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
"The Negro Establishment"
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"Always surround yourself with the talent of being able to do by yourself, so as not to be too dependent."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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"The white man never forgets eureurasia."
Congo (Kmtyw) proverb
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"How can you fight the enemy and be a part of the enemy?"
Nana Kuntu (aka Del Jones)
The Black Holocaust
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"The necessary re-education of Blacks and a possible solution of racial crises can begin, strangely enough, only when Blacks fully realize this central fact in their lives: the white man is their bitter enemy."
Chancellor Williams
"Those tireless, brave warriors urging us toward spiritual, psychological, physical and mental preparedness must be our dominant voice. The option of liberation must be made available to the ears of every awakening Kmtyw."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
A major anti-corruption drive began in 1987. The tribunal showed Captain Thomas Sankara to have a salary of only $450 a month and his most valuable possessions to be a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. He was the world's poorest president.
Sankara refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
When asked why he had let it be known that he did not want his portrait hung in public places, as is the norm for other Kmtyw leaders (and as Blaise Compaoré does now), Sankara said 'There are seven million Thomas Sankaras'.
A true Pan Kmtyw, anti World bank, IMF-debt imperial exploitation of Kmt (http://www.newsrescue.com/2009/05/how-the-imf-world-bank-and-structural-adjustment-programsap-destroyed-Kmt/). His assassination- orchestrated by the western world.
We salute him. May God revive a Thomas Sankara in all of us.
- COURTESY OF Kmt Remembers Thomas Sankara! Martyred for His True Kmtywism (http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/36919-Kmt-remembers-thomas-sankara-martyred-his-true-Kmtywism.html)
"Self hate is at work / At its best / When a race of people / Are afraid to deal with the roots of their stress."
Haiti Blue
"The Super Effeminization and Demasculinization Of Black-Afrakan Men"
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"I would now remind my beloved Black Sisters that a positive, optimistic loving woman strengthens and gives life to a man, but an antagonistic, negative or pessimistic one can destroy him."
Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
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"When people change, what they believe to be and honor as their traditions, change accordingly... People in doubt and fear, or in love with others' validation, lose sight of what their ancestors gave them. It is they who substitute others' traditions for their own in defiant acts of self-hatred. It is only then that enemy smiles so easily disarm us."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"A weak person goes where he is smiled at."
Herero Proverb
"As long as there is injustice there will be warriors. Warriors are not accidents. They are created through circumstance by Spirit. They are sent to resolve discord and return righteous order, first to their people, then to this planet. Any lesser end does not bring forth warriors. And, an enduring hell, inefficiently dealt with by righteous warriors, only produces wanton killers, tyrants, charismatic barbarians, vainglorious parasites and other unconscionable misleaders who only leave a warrior's impression. These are not warriors. These are opportunists. Warriors are called. Their end is Ma'at. In preparation for battle, they are honed in the fires of inhumanity, made fearless by the worst of this insanity's unbeaAmwle punishment. Warriors come in their time, not before or after it. They are brought forth when they are needed. Warriorhood is a calling for which we have no choice. Warriors are compelled by their spirit to do this work. It is a Creator-given mission. Their choices only lie in accepting this charge and deciding how to fulfill it.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
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"only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has been poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find that money cannot be eaten"
Proverb of the Cree nation, taken from ASASE YE DURU: TOWARDS AN AGRARIAN VISION OF Kmtyw COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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"Because we are Kmtyw we are not automatically redeemed
from our responsibility to do right because we don't perceive
that we are the initiators of the particular social and
ecological problems that we face. In fact, in many ways we
are even more responsible because of our very long history;
to act appropriately, to demonstrate in our own lives and in
our own communities the need to tread on this earth lightly
and with respect. If we don't, the lives of our children will be
compromised. That is all; the earth will continue to move in
spite of us."
taken from: ASASE YE DURU: TOWARDS AN AGRARIAN VISION OF Kmtyw COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
|: Jegna vs. Mentor :| (http://www.daghettotymz.com/current/mentor-jegna/mentor-jegna.html)
We must overstand that greek mythology is just that... a myth!
These made-up stories are of people that never existed. Why YT created them? Probably to validate their existence... But we must understand many customz we've adopted have been done so through ignorance of this "little white lie". Case-in-point, the use of the word 'mentor' we so lovingly use for our Kmtyw scholarz that have influenced us.
We forget the power we give to somethin' when you call on its name. Couple this with ignorance of the origin of these wordz, we actually disrespect somethin' we intend to respect.
The word 'Mentor' is defined as an "adviser, guide, guru, counselor, consultant; confidant." Look at the last word in the definition... 'confidant'.
Now let's look that definition up: "a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others." Now let's look at the history of the word 'Mentor' again.
In Greek mythology, Mentor was the son of Alcumus and, in his old age, a friend of Odysseus aka Ulysses. When Odysseus left for the Trojan War he placed Mentor in charge of his son, Telemachus, and of his palace.
Many are not aware that greece was a society where homosexuality was the norm. Men took great pride in feelin' the greatest luv could only be experienced between two men, whereas women were only used for procreative purposes.
Here we find the source of the modern use of the word mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person. Some professionz have 'mentoring programz' in which newcomerz are paired with more experienced people in order to obtain good examples and advice as they advance, and schoolz sometymz have mentoring programz for new students or students who are having difficulties.
According to legend, Mentor and Telemachus had a bond that included a sexual relationship. Now when we use this word, we are unknowingly honoring and condoning the acts of this imbalanced man and society.
The history of the hedz who created the english language have a completely different value system than us. That's why it's important we get in the practice of using the right terminology.
Author of Kmtyw Psychology, Dr. Wade Nobles introduced a more suitable word when referring to those who've been an influence. The word is Jegna, which basdically meanz "someone who demonstrates fearlessness; one who has the courage to protect their people, culture and way of life; and one who produces a hight quality of work."
Yeah, that's more appropriate...
----- courtesy of da ghetto tymz ------
Jegna is an Ethiopian (Amharic) word that means "a very brave person who is a protector of a culture, the rights of his or her people and their land."
A jegna is more than a "leader." She or he is someone who is not afraid to speak truth to power, is uncompromised, full of integrity and at the very core of his or her being sees the welfare and protection of their people as paramount. They are literally prepared to die for the community they represent.
It refers to those who are altruistically commited, out of an unqualified duty to their people and nation, to teach our children the art an science of a politically concscious adulthood.
Jegna (Jenoch, plural form) are those special people who have (1) been tested in struggle or battle (2) demonstrated extraordinary and unusual fearlessness, (3) shown determination and courage in protecting her/her peoples, land and culture, (4) shown diligence and dedication to our people, (5) produced an exceptionally high quality of work, and (6) have dedicated themselves to the protection, defense, nurturance and developement of our young by advancing our people. place, and culture.
-Wade W. Nobles ("From Na Ezaleli to the Jenoch")
...
Note: When honoring these Kmtyw individuals, jegna should be used instead of mentor because Mentor is derived from the mythical Greek character Mentor who Odysseus left to care for and educate his son Telemachus in his absence. As with every other "mentor" in ancient Greek society, a significant part of his role as a teacher and guardian was to personally introduce his ward to a homosexual sexstyle.
-Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
-------- courtesy of Jegna « I Am We (http://iamwe.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/jegna/) ----
"You can't build warriors with people of questionable gender orientation."
Hannibal Afrik
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"There is no substitute for competence in building self-esteem, absolutely none... A problem arises when a teacher focuses on self-esteem and not learning."
Barbara A. Sizemore
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"We are dealing with people who are not penitent, exhibit no remorse for their wrongdoing, seek all possible means to persevere in their nefarious plots and, when found out, blame others for their misdeeds."
William Stickland
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"It's better to run back than to run in the wrong direction."
Kmtyw proverb
.
"Blacks kill Blacks because they have never been trained to kill whites, therefore it is relatively outside their experience. Historically, the eureurasiaan system has always encouraged the killing of blacks. Because Blacks have been led to believe they are apart of the Psychopaths system, they simply follow the practice."
Bobby Wright
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"He who would tell a tale must look toward three ideals: to tell it well, to tell it beautifully, and to tell the truth. The first is the Gift of God, the second is the Vision of Genius, but the third is the Reward of Honesty."
W.E.B. DuBois
The Quest of The Silver Fleece
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"When you have love in your house it is like a shield."
Kmtyw proverb
.
"The mistakes we make should not dishearten us, just as the victories we score should not make us forget our mistakes."
Amilcar Cabral
Unity and Struggle
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"Dishonesty of self creates barriers in cosmic vision.....We must first be honest with, to and about ourselves, and have a foundation of truth to measure our activity and function...MAAT"
Vance Joseph
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
Haile Selassie I
.
"There is a large and influential segment of the black community and of the community of developmental and social psychologists, social workers, sociologists, etc, who assume without question that except for skin color and economic differences, the black child is the same as the white child. In other words, the black child is a white child who 'happens' to be painted black. This unexamined assumption when carried to its logical conclusion, as it has so often been, implies that what is good for the the white child (particularly the white middle class child) is equally as good for the black child. It further implies that the middle class white child represents all that is superior and that the black child would profit by the close imitation of his white counterpart. Consequently, the mental and physical developmental patterns of the white middle class child have become the optimal standard by which the black child is to be measured."
Amos N. Wilson
The Developmental Psychology of The Black Child
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"Se pa lè yon moun ap neye p'ou montre-l naje."
(It is not when someone is drowning that to show him how to swim.)
Ayitian Proverb
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"There is one essential condition in order for the process of Mentacide to be effective, namely, the control of the opposing group's institutions or the power to significantly influence them. Unfortunately, for the Black race, that condition exists through the world....The technique of Mentacide deludes Blacks into believing that there is a commonality between them and oppressed whites, which leads Blacks to attempt to form alliance with them. Yet, in spite of historical failures of these alliances to benefit Blacks, they continue to pursue this process. Unfortunately, Blacks will continue to utilize white directed techniques in attempting to solve their problems and will continue to be unsuccessful until they can develop a 'Black Social Theory'...A social theory determines the destiny of a people by establishing guidelines of life, e.g., it defines their relationship with other living things, it defines values and rituals , methods of education , how enemies are to be dealt with, etc. The ultimate achievement of Black Social Theory would be the recreation of Black culture."
Bobby E. Wright
"Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race"
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"With patience, you can see the navel of an ant."
Haitian (Kmtyw) proverb
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"If there is any philosophy, it's that those who have walked a certain path should know some things, should remember some things that they can pass on, that others can also use to walk the path a little better."
Ella Baker
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"The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but unfortunately, the traitors among the negro race are generally to be found among the men higher placed in society, the fellows who call themselves leaders. The man who will compromise rights of his race can be classified in no other way that that of a traitor also."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind."
Larry Obadele Williams
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"The genius of the eureurasiaans is that they have a talent for draining diseases. They have always drained their political sores on the lands of other people. They have the talent for recovering their internal losses by external extraction from people who had nothing to do with the crimes committed against them.
John Henrik Clarke
"The worst of humanity should not serve as the epitome and apex of civilized culture."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"A thieving spirit cannot be appeased by sacrifice."
Ngugiwa Thiong'o
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"It cannot be emphasized enough that one can be an advocate for the end of oppression of black women and not be a feminist. Just as being born a black and talking about the condition of black people does not make one automatically a Pan-Kmtywist, being born a black woman and talking about the condition and welfare of black women does not automatically make that person a feminist philosophically. The terms feminism and women are not one and the same. Feminism represents one approach and not the only approach to examining the place of women in the world. It is a particular and specific ideological viewpoint and not the all encompassing, monolithic, meta-linguistical voice of all women."
Valethia Watkins
"Womanism and Black Feminism: Issues in the Manipulation of Kmtyw Historiography"
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"There are and always will be some who, ashamed of the behaviour of their ancestors, try to prove that slavery was not so bad after all, that its evils and its cruelty were the exaggerations of propagandists and not the habitual lot of the slaves. Men will say (and accept) anything in order to foster national pride or soothe a troubled conscience."
C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins
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"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver
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"If you have to take a gun and run all around the world to force people to accept 'Democracy', then it must not be as good as you claim it to be"
Dick Gregory
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"this is the time that they have let you go but you don't want to go free so now the purpose is to destroy you!"
the honorable Louis Farrakhan.
"The white man is civilized only because he says he is and not by any historical standard of practice. Because of his literacy, he has written himself into civilization as though his theories were practice; for him, the theory is an end (and, of course, if we are not careful it will be our end)."
Harold Pat
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"No Kmtyw wanted to be enslaved."
Molefi Kete Asante
Kmtyw American History: A Journey of Liberation
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"stand up for something or lay down in the game"
coolio
"It is better to die for an idea that will live than to live for an idea that will die."
-Steve Biko
if a man wont treat you right what makes you think he will teach you right.
Khalid Muhammad
All strong people emphasize their history all of the time. Weak peoples do not."
Asa G. Hilliard/Nana Baffour
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"Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind."
Kwame Nkrumah
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If you don't know your history/culture, and history or culture will do.
quoted in M. K. Baruti's "Guide to Kmtyw Manhood/wombman-hood"
"In a violent world, violence is not a moral question but rather a life-sustaining dynamic."
Bobby E. Wright
"Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race"
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"the only thing greater than us is our Kmtyw life."
our ancestors (i think)
"In a violent world, violence is not a moral question but rather a life-sustaining dynamic."
Bobby E. Wright
"Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race"
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paraphrasing: " god didn't make negros the negro was made in amreikkka by the yt man ain't no chip can make you more a slave to the yt man than whats already in our forehead and in our hands that's the mark of the beast"
khalid muhammed
" aint nothing yt never moved you to nothing good, aint nothing yt will never move you to nothing good"
Khalid Muhammad
"Patience taken to far is not having patience at all, but being a coward" Geogre Jackson:soldiert:
"to adjust to a condition doesn't mean that we should accept that condition"
dr. john Henrik Clarke
What kills more than crack? Crackers!
yours truely!:soldiert:
"Until we learn to love and protect our woman, we will never be a fit and recognized people on the earth."
Elijah Muhammad
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"Let us eat,drink and be merry, for 2marrow we die"! Imhotep 3rd dynastic period.:pyramid:
"Too many of us see education as essentially a preparation for jobs, as a preparation for moving up in social status, and as a means of securing a better lifestyle. And certainly, these are some of its major functions. However, I do not see them as the primary functions of education. I think it is vital that we understand that the major function of education is to help secure the survival of a people. When we talk about maximizing the intelligence of Black children we are speaking not just in terms of their ability to go through school and to get better reading and writing averages and go to the right colleges. We are concerned about enhancing their intelligence so that it can serve as a means for maintaining the actual physical survival of Black people. We are now at the crossroads. We are in a pathetic situation as far as the world is concerned. We are in a situation that is exceedingly dangerous, where we are questioning whether Kmtyw peoples survive the next century. And consequently, it's going to take a different kind of thinking style, a different system of values, and a different approach to human relations to get us out of this quandary that we are in today; the quandary the eureurasiaan has put us in. And it's going to require a different kind of education than what is available today."
Amos N. Wilson
Awakening the Natural Genius of Black Children
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"Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt."
Edwidge Danticat
Krik? Krak!
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"E]ducation, in large measure, is a process designed to neutralize differences by instilling in the educated a common set of values and beliefs. The impact of the educational process upon blacks is devastating. Given the methodology of white superiority and conversely black inferiority inherent in 'education,' the system creates blacks who are carbon copies of whites in speech, appearance, mannerisms, viewpoint, and outlook. One of the most horrific consequences of this process is that the 'educated' black begins to see other blacks through the eyes of their oppressors, that is, as stupid lazy, oversexed, morally bankrupt, ugly, and so on. Thus, some of our best minds view their own people in virtually the same way as our oppressors. The values that result from this system discourage normal relationships among black people, thus creating self-hate among black people, active acceptance of white authority over black authority, active preference of white community relationships over black community relationships, and steadfast rejection of our Kmtyw heritage and Kmtyw identity. In short, education subjects Kmtyw people to a formal process of racist dominance that shapes and controls our thinking and modifies our creativity."
Harold Pates
Notable Quotes of the Living Bobby E. Wright
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"Socialize and educate your child for mastery and control, to be the best among all peoples and not a servant to any people."
Amos N. Wilson
The Developmental Psychology of The Black Child
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"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity."
Omowale Malcolm X
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"The hunter's apprentice never walks in front of the master-hunter. "
Ewe (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power."
"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."
"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."
"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
"My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."
"How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?"
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
"Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
"We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."
"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."
"As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything."
"In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that."
Malik Shabazz/ Brother Omowale/ Malcolm X
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"If it's one thing I hate more than Black men who love white women, it's Black men who love white men."
"You don't need any guns, all you need is some unity and a blade, when it gets dark. You don't need any jets, you don't need any atomic bombs, you don't need any battleships; all you need is darkness... But always be fair with him, do unto them as they did unto you. Thats fair, thats justice, thats equality, thats how you equalize the situation."
"We will kill you for our women."
"Revolution is bloody...and you're afraid to bleed."
~Nana Omowale (Malcolm X)
:peace: If you want excellence, establish a household with a strong wife and children!!!
By Hardedef
"It must be understood that institutions have very little to do with buildings or anything concrete, rather they are methods and ideas which sustain a social theory or in the vernacular continue a way of life."
Bobby E. Wright
"Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race
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The swing of the weight to the left... Is the swing of the weight to the right! Kmtyw Proverb
"Most behavioral scientists attest to the fact that situations can be contrived in a manner that will influence people to engage in self-destructive behavior. Further, once it is determined that such a condition caused the behavior, the focus of attention shifts from the victim to the perpetrator-except where Blacks are involved..... What is popularly called "behavior modification" is a highly complex "science" which is underrated and generally ignored by Black behavioral scientists. Yet, any Black with a cursory knowledge of B.F. Skinner's "experimental analysis of behavior" should recognize its potential danger to our community, where every situation is under the control of the White race. It also clearly defines the Black community as still enslaved. The prophesy of B.F. Skinner (1971) in Beyond Freedom and Dignity is now a reality. Skinner articulated that it is possible to "delude" people into believing that they have the essence of life-freedom and dignity-and still control them."
-Dr. Bobby E. Wright
Attached files Beyond Freedom and Dignity.pdf (https://www.abibitumi.com/wp-content/uploads/ppMigration/42974=1856-Beyond%20Freedom%20and%20Dignity.pdf) (60.5 KB)
"It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Dr. Kamau Kambon
"To not expose the truth is to lie. "
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Mentacide
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"For some of us, arguing is a sport."
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory
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"The reason we lost is because we abandoned our traditions...for modernity."
Hannibal Afrik
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"It must be understood that institutions have very little to do with buildings or anything concrete, rather they are methods and ideas which sustain a social theory or in the vernacular continue a way of life."
Bobby E. Wright
"Mentacide: The Ultimate Threat to the Black Race
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"a God is the spiritual embodiment
of the people who pray to it.
only Black Gods listen to Black people."
Laini Mataka
"let us pray"
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"At no period in the history of the patriarchal cultures of eureurasia has motherhood been accorded the same status and reverence it has had in Kmtyw cultures."
--Ifi Amadiume
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"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."
Kwame Nkrumah
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"If you are afraid of digging up burrows you will never reach the striking distance of the rat."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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BETTER IS BREAD WHEN THE MIND IS AT EASE THAN RICHES WITH ANXIETY.:5star: (BY AMENEMOPE):flirt:
"The slavery of the mind is far more destructive than that of the body."
Edward Wilmot Blyden
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"Yes, we want reparations. You've got to pay us for all those years of free labor; the lynchings; the beatings; the rape of our women; the killing of our babies. Yes, we want the money....buildings....land....We want everything you've got. And then we want your blood! Yes, white men, you have to give up your blood too. What you owe us can't be paid in full until you give up some blood too."
Khallid Muhammad
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"How has debating with eureurasiaans and homosexualized Kmtyws stopped them from hunting our children?"
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Yurugu's Eunuchs
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"That which love has is what it gives out."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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- I will have a feeling of love and responsibility for all Black children, be they my own biological descendants or not. The extended family is a traditional way of life for us, therefore all Kmtyw adults are potentially correct Black parents.
- I will teach what is right and what is wrong.
- I will respect my children and will demand respect from them.
- I will strive to produce in the home harmony, stability and an atmosphere of trust and love. I will provide opportunities for learning and will instill a sense of pride by teaching our past and present history.
- I will have control and power in the home, being that the home is the smallest example of a Nation -- and if the home is not together you cannot deal with outside forces.
- I will find the best possible educational institutions for my children and I will participate in some way in the institution.
- I will seek to establish and perpetuate those moral attitudes and values which will add to my children's personalities and characters; virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherliness, kindness and charity.
- I will develop a deep inner love that flows over and around the Black child to form a shield of protection, guidance, wisdom and strength.
- I will assume the responsibility for cultivating the development of Black youth. This cultivation process occurs mentally (through skill development); physically (through the sharing of food, clothing and shelter); emotionally (through the commitment to the national development of Black people); and spiritually (through the living out of a superior value system).
- I will be about collaborating with others like myself, creating an atmosphere whereby Black children can grow and develop their potential in effective and meaningful ways.
- I will be responsible for strengthening the positive qualities of the child and for correcting negative characteristics. I will maintain and nurture positive stability in the Black family.
- I will be a model of the intellectual, emotional and moral discipline necessary to the child's understanding of, relationship to, and responsibility for the total Black experience -- past, present and future.
- I will have as my goal harmony within and freedom without; with confidence in the knowledge that the ultimate in freedom is service to mankind. My whole person and lifestyle will transmit these same values to the young.
- I will help every Black child to develop the skills to survive. I will teach that the highest good in life is to serve Black people, helping all Black people in the struggle to survive.
Mwalimu I. Mwadilifu (E. Curtis Alexander)
(as recorded in his) A Methodology for Teaching the Culturally Particular Kmtyw American Child
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"The Kemetic Ocean is what we now call the Atlantic Ocean. We unapologetically make this declaration using our afreason because we named this world long before others were acquainted with words. eureurasiaan "old world" maps label the Atlantic Ocean as "Oceanus Aethiopicus" (Ethiopian Ocean). "Ethiopian" was a Greek label for Kemites (Kmtyws) meaning "burnt skin." It is the oldest known Greek word for the Kemites (Kmtyws). However, since we are not these protoeureurasiaan Greeks or their descendants, we should not use Greek words to characterize and describe the Kmtyw reality/worldview. Calling the Kemetic Ocean the Ethiopian Ocean speaks volumes about how the Greeks saw the world. Calling this enormous body of water Kmtyw, which means they probably changed it into a Greek name that reflected earlier Kmtyws calling it by an Kmtyw name, indicates both the respect that Greeks had for the names Kmtyws had given to places in the world, as well as the fact that Kmtyws had already named this world. Therefore, moving back in time to our original thinking, if anything, we should call the ocean that changed from being the Ethiopian to the Atlantic (also a eureurasiaan(ized) term) nothing other than the Kemetic Ocean. This would be ourstorically consistent."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Nyansasem: A Calendar of Revolutionary Daily Thoughts
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The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
-excerpt from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm); Ida B. Wells
"The things one does, one should do out of love."
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory
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If you can control a person's thinking, you do not have to
worry about the person's action. When you detetmine what a
person shall think, you do not have to concern yourself about
what the person will do. If you make the person that he or she
is inferior, you do not have-to compel him or her to accept an
inferior status, for the person will seek it for himSelf or herself.
~ Carter G Woodson
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"The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side."
— Edwidge Danticat (Krik? Krak!)
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"`I ain't left nothing in Kmt.'" That's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Kmt."
- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Message to the Grassroots
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whatever you're doing today is what the movement is doing! KRS ONE
"Discourse and active organization strategies intended to lead Kmtyw people to command their own socialization process, must build and improve upon distinct Kmtyw indigenous traditions."
Asa G. Hilliard
Kmtyw Power
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A radical change for the better in the economic fortunes of the Kmtyw community requires a commensurate radical change in the nature of the character of the social relationships and connections it members share with each other. For an economic system and the political power it generates are finally founded on the system of social relationships which inhere in a community of persons. And that foundational system is but itself the concrete behavioral manifestation of the group identity and consciousness shared by that community of persons.
Amos N. Wilson
Blueprint for Black Power
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"Have we not now sufficient intelligence among us to understand our true position, to realise our actual condition, and determine for ourselves what is best to be done?"
Martin Robison Delany
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
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"In western society, we should not expect justice to be served in a situation where an Kmtyw tries to defend himself against the aggressions of eureurasiaan culture, regardless of how this assault manifests itself. We have to always bear in mind that this is not an ideal society for any people, except the immoral, perverted and chaotic. eureurasiaans and their cultural clones thrive in an ordered disorder because it allows them to be their true psychopathic, or psychopathically turned, selves. This is not our reality. eureurasiaan society is not designed to benefit us. It is designed to destroy us and every semblance of manhood and womanhood that in any way that contradicts eureurasiaan imperatives. It is designed to benefit eureurasiaans. The Kmtyw way, the moral way, in this case the heterosexual way, has no place in this culture. This is a homosexual culture. Their mission is to make it a world culture. And, as part of this mission, they will protect those who think and act like them from us. Although homosexuality is only one of many eureurasiaan-induced insanities that Kmtyws have been infected with, it deserve our special attention. Because homosexuality is so much more intimately connected to the other aberrations. Through its infusion, individuals are more rapidly led to accept and normalize other insanities. Also, and most importantly in the case of Kmtyw men, it removes the threat of and, in most cases, even the pretense of overt Kmtyw warrior manhood. Furthermore, the rate of its spread among Kmtyws globally through aggressive pedophilia and media promotion is phenomenal relative to other compaAmwle deviations."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"Without Sanctuary
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"Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living." - Mary McLeod Bethune -
" The god who created the sun which gives us light, who rouses the waves and rules the storm, though hidden in the clouds, he watches us. He sees all the white man does. The god of the white man inspires him with crime, but our god calls upon us to do good works. Our god who is good to us orders us to revenge our wrongs. He will direct our arms and aid us. Throw away the symbol of the god of the whites who has so often caused us to weep, and listen to the voice of liberty, which speaks in the hearts of us all.":gyenyame: Bookman Dutty
We can't have war between black men and black women, because no people can be ...free if one half of the mind of the people is tied up in conflict. It's going to have to be both of us, or none of us!!" DR. JOHN H. CLARK:soldiert:
"What has oppressed you is not going to liberate you."
Hannibal Tirus Afrik
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"Education for a new reality in the Kmtyw world must be an education that enables the Kmtyw to handle all of the wealth producing resources of Kmt, an education that enables the Kmtyw to manage and market these resources and an education that enables him or her to prepare the generations still to come to do the same thing. A large number of Kmtyw children should be chosen at birth and trained toward these ends and all education should be toward the total sovereignty of Kmtyw people."
John Henrik Clarke
Notes Toward an Kmtyw World Revolution
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say dat!oooooooooookkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!:woman:
"To separate a people from their history is like separating a tree from its roots, both ultimately fade into oblivion."
Hannibal Tirus Afrik
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"The revolution is a process, not an event. No steps taken can go unnoticed. It proceeds painfully, slowly. To destroy and rebuild is not accomplished in a few generations. It is a dynamic and continuing struggle. Our revolutionary responsibility is to let every word, every act, political and personal, be filled with a meaning that adds to the revolutionary process."
Nana Akua Afriyie
"To Be An Kmtyw Revolutionary"
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"I prefer to be used as an instrument to convey the truth of a people who respect the rights of man, rather than to be used as an Uncle Tom whitewasher of black oppression and injustice and an apologist for America's hypocrisy."
Robert F. Williams
Negroes with Guns
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"Contradictions sometimes undermine achievements."
Hannibal Tirus Afrik
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"Every man can conquer his vices by bringing his subconscious will to play upon and against such vices"
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Message to the People
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"Pan-Kmtywism is an inner need to know ourselves. We need to keep looking at each other until we annihilate our own suspicious moves and recognize the same enemy looking back at all of us, over all the seas and all the centuries."
Carolyn Clark Fowler Gerrard
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"When you see an arrow that is not going to miss you, throw out your chest and meet it head on."
Kongo (Kmtyw) proverb
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QuoteAkua Ma'at;44006 wrote: "When you see an arrow that is not going to miss you, throw out your chest and meet it head on."
Kongo (Kmtyw) proverb
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Nki mutinda boketubaka yai ngana na Kikongo?
mepa wo kyEw, mentE aseE. Nki mutinda boketubaka yai ngana na Kikongo EkyerE sEn?
"Education for Self-Reliance". MWALIMU Julius K. Nyerere
Education for Self Reliance, Julius K. Nyerere, 1967
Since long before Independence the people of this country, under the leadership of TANU, have been demanding more education for their children. But we have never really stopped to consider why we want education what its purpose is. Therefore, although over time there have been various criticisms about the details of curricula provided in schools, we have not until now questioned the basic system of education which we took over at the time of independence.
We have never done that because we have never thought about education except in terms of obtaining teachers, engineers, administrators, etc. Individually and collectively we have in practice thought of education as a training for the skills required to earn high salaries in the modern sector of our economy.
It is now time that we looked again at the justification for a poor society like ours spending almost 20 per cent of its Government revenues on providing education for its children and young people, and began to consider what that education should be doing. For in our circumstances it is impossible to devote Shs. 147,330,000 every year on education for some of our children (while others go without) unless its result has a proportionate relevance to the society we are trying to create.
:sankofa::gyenyame::heru::pyramid::Kmt:
"Consciousness more than anything else is what separates humanity from all other animals. Consciousness is attained by the acquisition of knowledge. This is a continual process in a conscious life. Now information is not the same thing as knowledge. All conscious people, and especially we Kmtyws, have the responsibility to struggle through the barrage of information and misinformation from the capitalist media so as to properly understand the social, political, and economic conflicts that affect us. Thus to understand our historical duty to advance the transformation of our people and societies to a better, more humane way of life. This is a lifelong responsibility. It begins with consciousness." - Kwame Ture, Ready for Revolution.
:Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt::Kmt:
"Because of the painful and unresolved memories of our past, many Kmtyw Americans who continue to encourage their sisters and brothers to remember the struggles of their ancestors are frequently told by others to 'get over slavery and forget the past.' We must be ever mindful that there has never been a culture that achieved greatness by separating itself from its past. History has shown that wherever culturally-centered people traveled throughout the world, they knew that the retention of their language, culture, philosophy, laws, and god concepts were essential to their survival.... No sane people turn their backs on the past. It is only by facing your past that you can accurately perceive reality and determine your destiny. Reality is a pathway to the future, but if that pathway becomes blocked or is partially obscured, then one is destined to wonder aimlessly until the old pathway is found or a new one is forged. Kmtyw Americans cannot expect to have a sustainable future if we believe we are something that never existed." Anthony T. Browder Survival Strategies for Kmtyws in America
YES, SAY IT LOUD!!!! SANKOFA!SANKOFA!!!!!:sankofa:
Hey all! I've been on a Kwame Ture kick as I am just finishing his 'Ready for Revolution' :
"Never give up. Question everything. Challenge every authority. Always seek information and organize, organize, organize. And never, ever dispair. Trust yourself. Trust the people. Never settle for less. Never give up, organize, organize, organize. History is full of surprises. Especially for exploiters. Organize, organize, organize. Stand ready. For revolution." - Kwame Ture
:sankofa::Kmt::gyenyame::Kmt:
"Truth and morning become light with time."
Ethiopian (Kmtyw) proverb
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"If we have lost touch with what our forefathers discovered and knew, this has been due to the system of education to which we were introduced. This system of education prepared us for a subservient role to eureurasia and things eureurasiaan. It was directed at estranging us from our own cultures in order the more effectively to serve a new and alien interest." [Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah]
"Woantow no yiye a, wonsow no yiye."
if you dont throw it with care, then it may also not be caught with care.- Akan proverb
The reaction one gets from others is usually parallel to one's own action.
"Strengthen the weakest link in the chain or git rid of it."
PreciseScience
"Love & Sacrifice"
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"you may not be at war but you are definitely in one. you just the only one not fighting"
Khalid Muhammed.
"war is coming in this country where the color of your skin will be your uniform"
Khalid Muhammed
Ti koro nko agyina. Akan proverb
One head does not hold consultations. (two heads are better than one):hugs:
"We shall measure our progress by the improvement in the health of our people; by the number of children in school, and by the quality of their education; by the availability of water and electricity in our towns and villages, and by the happiness which our people take in being able to manage their own affairs. The welfare of our people is our chief pride, and it is by this that my Government will ask to be judged." Broadcast to the Nation. 24 December 1957
"We have the blessing of the wealth of our vast resources, the power of our talents and the potentialities of our people. Let us grasp now the opportunities before us and meet the challenge to our survival. " Address to the National Assembly. 26 March 1965
"Yet all the stock exchanges in the world are pre-occupied with Kmt's gold, diamonds, uranium, platinum, copper and iron ores. Our CAPITAL flows out in streams to irrigate the whole system of Western economy. Fifty-two per cent of the gold in Fort Knox at this moment, where the united snakes stores its bullion, is believed to have originated from OUR shores. Kmt provides more than 60 per cent of the world's gold. A great deal of the uranium for nuclear power, of copper for electronics, of titanium for supersonic projectiles, of iron and steel for heavy industries, of other minerals and raw materials for lighter industries - the basic economic might of the foreign Powers - comes from OUR continent.
"Experts have estimated that the Congo Basin alone can produce enough food crops to satisfy the requirements of nearly HALF the population of the whole world and here we sit talking about regionalism, talking about gradualism, talking about step by step. Are you afraid to tackle the bull by the horn?" Address to the Conference of Kmtyw Heads of State and Government, May 24, 63, can be found at page 237 of the book Revolutionary Path
"No independent Kmtyw State today by itself has a chance to follow an INDEPENDENT course of economic development, and many of us who have tried to do this have been almost ruined or have had to return to the fold of the former colonial rulers. This position will not change unless we have unified POLICY working at the CONTINENTAL LEVEL. The first step towards our cohesive economy would be a unified monetary zone, with, initially, an agreed common parity for our currencies...When we find that the arrangement of a fixed common parity is working successfully, there would seem to be NO reason for not instituting one common currency and a single bank of issue." Address to the Conference of Kmtyw Heads of State and Government, May 24, 63 can be found at page 242 of the book Revolutionary Path
"While we are assuring our stability by a COMMON DEFENCE system, and our economy is being orientated beyond foreign control by a COMMON CURRENCY, MONETARY ZONE and CENTRAL BANK OF ISSUE, we can investigate the resources of our continent. We can begin to ascertain whether in reality we are the richest, and not, as we have been TAUGHT to BELIEVE, the poorest among the continents. We can determine whether we possess the largest potential in hydroelectric power, and whether we can harness it and other sources of energy to our OWN INDUSTRIES. We can proceed to PLAN our industrialization on a CONTINENTAL SCALE, and to build up a COMMON MARKET for nearly three hundred people."
"Common Continental Planning for the Industrial and Agricultural Development of Kmt is a vital necessity."
"So many blessings flow from our unity, so many disasters must follow our continued disunity, that our failure today will not be attributed by posterity only to faulty reasoning and lack of courage, but to our CAPITULATION before the forces of neocolonialism and imperialism." "The hour of history which has brought us to this assembly is a revolutionary hour. It is a hour of decision. For the first time, the economic imperialism which menaces us is itself challenged by THE IRRESISTIBLE WILL OF OUR PEOPLE."
"The masses of the people of Kmt are crying for unity."
"It is this popular determination that must move us on to a Union of Independent Kmtyw States." Address to the Conference of Kmtyw Heads of State and Government, May 24, 63 can be found at page 243 of the book Revolutionary Path
OSAGYEFO KWAME NKRUMAH
Nsu emaa apataa yee ahantan. Akan proverb
It is water that made the fish behave so proudly.
Explanation: Under the protective domain of a powerful authority, a weak person may put on an air of pride and importance. In such circumstances, it is the powerful authority who is to be blamed for the pride of the weak person.
The fish is helplessly very weak outside water which is its natural habitat. Not even the enormously strong and large fishes, like the whales have strength enough to move their bodies a few minutes outside water. Nevertheless, inside water even small fishes may bluff a man and quickly swim away.
Who gives the weak so called "Kmtyw americans" their power? There is where the blame should lay!
"eureurasiaan people, within eureurasia and in the broader world outside of eureurasia, have always maintained their power and control with a form of protracted violence. The humanity and naivete of Kmtyw people seem to have always interfered with their understanding of this point."
John Henrik Clarke
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This is one of my favorites! yes we the children must study and learn the mishaps of the past and what does not work and work to create that which does!:whitedevil::sniper:
The slave that kills his master practices an act of self defense - Louis Gama
We keep trying to persuade white people to reconize and acknowledge our worth as a people.We keep trying to impress the wrong person when we need to impress ourselves. - Nathan & Julia Hare
I'M FOR TRUTH, NO MATTER WHO TELLS IT.
I'M FOR JUSTICE, NO MATTER WHO IT IS FOR OR AGAINST.
I'M A HUMAN BEING FIRST AND AS SUCH I'M FOR WHOEVER AND WHATEVER BENEFITS HUMANITY AS A WHOLE!!! MALCOLM X:soldiert:
Woso atudru a, wonom taa. Kmtyw proverb
Those who carry gun powder do smoke the pipe.
One should not allow the possibility of some danger to drive one to absolute inactivity! :soldiert:
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If the master got sick, the house negro would say "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than the master identified with himself.And if you came to the house negro and said "Let's run away, Let's escape, Let's separate" the house negro would look at you and say "Man, you crazy. What you mean separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" There was that house negro. In those days, he was called a house nigger. And that's what we call him today, because we still got some house niggers runnin around here. This modern house negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only negro out here. I'm the only one on my job. I'm the only one in this school." "You're nothing but a house negro. And if someone come to you right now and say "Let's separate.", you say the same thing that the house negro said on the plantation. "What you mean separate? From America? This good white land? Where you gonna get a better job than you get here? I mean, this is what you say! "I di-I ain't left nothing in Kmt" That's what you say. "Why, you left your mind in Kmt". On that same plantation, there was the field negro. The field negro, those were the masses. There was always more negros in the field as there were negros in the house. There negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house, they ate high up on the hog. The negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left in the insides of the hog. They call them chit'lins nowaday. In those days, they called them what they were, guts! That's what you were, a guteater. And some of you are still guteaters. The field negro was beaten, from morning til night. He lived in a shack, in a hut. He wore cast-off clothes. He hated his master. I say, he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house negro loved his master. But that field negro, remember, they were in the majority, and they hated their master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out, that field negro prayed for a wind. For a breeze. When the master got sick, the field negro prayed that he died. If someone come to the field negro and said "Let's separate, let's run." He didn't say "Where we going?" he said "Any place is better than here". We got field negros in America today. I'm a field negro. The masses are the field negros. When they see this mans house on fire, we don't hear these little negros talkin bout "Our Government is in trouble. They say thee Government is in trouble." Imagine a negro, "Our Government". I even heard one say "Our astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant, and "Our astronauts". "Our neighbors" That's a negro that's out of his mind. That's a negro that's out of his mind! Just cause the slave master in that day, used Tom, to keep the field negroes in check. The same ol slavemaster today has negros who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms. 20th century Uncle Toms to keep you and me in check. Keep us under control. Keep us passive and peaceful. And nonviolent. That's Tom making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist and the man is going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him when he start pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called novocane, to make you think their not doing anything to you. So you sit there and because you got all that novocane in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. There's nothing in our book, the Quran, as you call it, Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful. Be courteuos. Obey the law. Respect everyone. But if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery! That's a good religion. In fact, that's that old-time religion. That's the one that ma and pa used to talk about. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and a head for a head and a life for a life. That's a good religion. And doesn't anybody, no one resist that kind of religion being taught but a wolf who intends to make you his meal. This is the way it is with the white man in America. He's a wolf and you're his sheep. Anytime a shepherd, a pastor, teach you and me not to run from the white man, and at the same time teach us don't fight the white man, he's a traitor, to you and me. Don't lay down our life all by itself, no, preserve your life. It's the best thing you got. And if you got to give it up, let it be Even Steven. .MALCOLM X
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If the society allow wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. Barbara Charline Jordan:sankofa:
"The stranglehold of oppression cannot be loosened by a plea to the oppressor's conscience. Social change in something as fundamental as racist oppression involves violence. You cannot have progress here without violence and upheaval, because it's a struggle for survival for one and a struggle for liberation for the other. Always the powers in command are ruthless and unmerciful in defending their position and their privileges."
Robert F. Williams
Negroes with Guns
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"Have we relinquished our obligation to respond to the various crises of our people to the point that we are too paralyzed to plan for immediate and long range crises? We are confused around this issue, because a decision to prepare ourselves challenges by its nature the present power structure. We must become psychologically committed to the idea that wherever we are, whatever we are doing, at any time, when our peoples lives are endangered as a result of a natural disaster or unnatural crisis, we will come to their aid. We must prepare and organize in anticipation of these possibilities."
Mutulu Shakur
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"I freed thounited snakesnds of slaves. I could have freed thounited snakesnds more if they had known they were slaves."
Mama Harriet Tubman
"The events which transpired five thounited snakesnd years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thounited snakesnd years from now. All history is a current event."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"STAY FOCUS"
Queen Mother Moore
"A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every
[Kmtyw-American] home."
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker
"First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning."
Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass
"Kmtyw-Americans have not yet learn that no other people have continued worshipping another's God, especially their slave master's god or gods and freed themselves from cultural and physical genocide. Why should Kmtyws and Kmtyw-Americans be the only exception to this historic reality?"
Dr. Ben
"Freedom is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest, but as a conquest."
Carter G. Woodson
"Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the Kmtyw cultural and spiritual system."
Professor James Small
"Whoever controls the images, controls your self-esteem, self-respect and self-development. Whoever controls the history, controls the vision."
Dr. Leonard Jeffries
"The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you."
Marcus Garvey
"Remain separated and you will suffer; Together we are invincible !"
Haywood Barber, Sr.
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who seek temporary security rather than basic liberty deserve neither...
Queen Mother Moore
"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it."
Steve Biko
"I started with this idea in my head, "there's two things I've got a right to....death or liberty?."
Mama Harriet Tubman
"You're not an Kmtyw because you're born in Kmt. You're an Kmtyw because Kmt is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing."
Marimba Ani
"To illuminate our real Kmtyw History, to clarify our Kmtyw Present, to brilliantly project our Kmtyw Future."
Mama Kefa Nephthys
"Truth crush to earth will rise again stronger than ever."
Dr. Leonard Jeffries
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"I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner."
Malcolm X
"Ignore the ignorance of the ignorant"
Unknown
"What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce at the output end of the process real Black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society."
Steve Biko
"I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Now that I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is."
Mama Harriet Tubman
"Two wrongs don't make a right....but it makes things even."
Lana "Isis" Drakes
"The only protection against injustice in man is power.....physical, financial and scientific."
Marcus Garvey
"Win or lose, we win by raising the issues."
Charlotta Bass
"The most disastrous aspect of colonization which you are the most relunctant to release from your mind is their colonization of the image of God."
Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing
"Peace if possible, War if necessary."
Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"My bones are tired. Not tired of struggling, but tired of oppression."
Queen Mother Moore
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
"Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"I never ran my train off the track. And I never lost a passenger"
Mama Harriet Tubman
"Lifting as we climb"
National Association of Colored Women
"We have to win"
Jama
"...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their operation - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group in order to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude."
Steve Biko
"One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his or her ancestors and use that knowledge to master, understand and become able to create institutions that allow him or her to live in harmony with the rest of nature and the universe."
Professor James Small
"Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits."
Malcolm X
"God created black people and black people created style."
George C. Wolfe
"For the 'human race' to get along sounds like a wonderful thing......yet and still, Kmtyws as a people globally must first get along. Then and only then can we realistically get along truthfully with any other race. Anything other than that......you're just fooling yourself."
Unknown
"The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me."
Mama Harriet Tubman
"Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance"
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
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"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
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
"Kmtyw people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
"No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant."
Frederick Douglass
"Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research."
Malcolm X
"Look at you....chasing your tail....running after the dollar bill as if it's going to solve your problems personally or collectively as a people. 'Black America' is in the top 10 list of richest nations in the world. Still....look at us. Disrespected, mistreated and down trodden to say the least. Why? Because we don't study our past and present to create a better future with our resources. We have to study our history....It's mandatory."
Lloyd "Amen-Ra" Spivey
"History is a clock people use to tell their historical culture and political time of the day. It's a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The history tells them where they have been, where they are and what they are. But most importantly history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be"
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs
Malcolm X
"Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black."
Steve Biko
"When you deal with the past, you're dealing with history, you're dealing actually with the origin of a thing. When you know the origin, you know the cause It's impossible for you and me to have a balanced mind in this society without going into the past, because in this particular society, as we function and fit into it right now, we're such an underdog, we're trampled upon, we're looked upon as almost nothing. Now if we don't go into the past and find out how we got this way, we will think that we were always this way. And if you think that you were always in the condition that you're in right now, it's impossible for you to have too much confidence in yourself, you become worthless, almost nothing. But when you go back into the past and find out where you once were, then you will know that you once had attained a higher level, had made great achievements, contributions to society, civilization, science, and so forth. And you know that if you once did it you can do it again; you automatically get the incentive, the inspiration and the energy necessary to duplicate what our forefathers did."
Malcolm X
"Our purpose in life is to leave a legacy for our children and our children's children. For this reason, we must correct history that at present denies our humanity and self-respect."
Queen Mother Moore
"Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware of the very moment, the very instant that you are in; being aware of how you affect the human social, political, and natural ecology you are a part of and how it affects you. Consciousness is being informed and instructed through your groups peculiar culture on the effects of the varied ecologies on your immediate and distant ancestors, and to be aware of their interpretation of that experience."
Professor James Small
"Billions of dollars a year is pumped into the propaganda machine to keep black people ignorant of the truth about their history and condition."
Unknown
"The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'."
Booker T. Washington
"If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor."
T. D. Jakes
"I was afraid because I was ignorant."
Tawana Brawley
"All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishments of an Kmtyw empire, so strong and powerful as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our lifetime can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility within another generation."
Marcus Garvey
"Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone."
Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"POWER RESPECTS POWER."
Raaq (Roc)
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass
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"Kmtyw-Americans have not yet learn that no other people have continued worshipping another's God, especially their slave master's god or gods and freed themselves from cultural and physical genocide. Why should Kmtyws and Kmtyw-Americans be the only exception to this historic reality?"
Dr. Ben
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"Freedom is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest, but as a conquest."
Carter G. Woodson
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"The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you."
Marcus Garvey
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"Those who seek temporary security rather than basic liberty deserve neither."
Queen Mother Moore
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"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it."
Steve Biko
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"You're not an Kmtyw because you're born in Kmt. You're an Kmtyw because Kmt is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing."
Marimba Ani
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THE GREATEST EVIL IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY IS NOT RACISM BUT IGNORANCE! SEPTIMA POINSETTE CLARK
"The best way to counter attack a foreign and alien culture is to live your own" Kmtyw proverb
"Linguistic unity based on a foreign language however one may look at it, is cultural abortion. It would irremediably eventuate in the death of the authentic national (Kmtyw) culture, the end of our deeper intellectual and spiritual life and reduce us to perpetual copycats, having missed out on our historical mission to the world."
Cheikh Anta Diop
"The influence of language is so great that the various eureurasiaan mother countries feel that they can afford to withdraw politically from Kmt without great loss as long as their linguistic presence remains in the economic, spiritual, and cultural spheres. "
Cheikh Anta Diop
An old Kmtyw leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
H. Rap Brown
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
H. Rap Brown
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
H. Rap Brown
I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
H. Rap Brown
If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
H. Rap Brown
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
H. Rap Brown
No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
H. Rap Brown
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown
See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
H. Rap Brown
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown
So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
H. Rap Brown
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
H. Rap Brown
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
H. Rap Brown
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. Rap Brown
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
H. Rap Brown
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
H. Rap Brown
7" BEFORE the making of the white man the Black Man did not eat animal flesh. After the removal of the white man, there will be no more eating of this type of meat (animal flesh or even fowl). There will be a complete stoppage and practice of the eating of land flesh regardless to whether it is animal, beast or fowl. The people will live a thounited snakesnd years without eating them".
how to eat to live
"The number of persons engaged in the slave trade and the amount of capital embarked in it exceed our powers of calculation."
W.E.B. Dubois
The Suppression of the Slave Trade
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"I have neither been evil nor approved of anything evil or offensive. I have delighted in speaking truth. For I know well the reward that comes from doing this on earth from the time of one's first act til the time one reaches the grave. Indeed my sure defense shall be in speaking truth in the day when I reach the divine judges" - Beka ancient Kemetian teacher
"THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE MARKET. YEA! THAT'S WHITE FOLKS PROPAGANDA. NO FREE MARKET. THEY FORCE PEOPLE INTO THEIR MARKET. CASTRO WAS NOT FREE TO SAY I DON'T WANT TO BE A PART OF IT." -Dr. Amos Wilson
Steve Biko, from his book "I Write What I Like"
"Those who know, define racism as discrimination by a group against another for the purposes of subjugation or maintaining subjugation. In other words one cannot be a racist unless he has the power to subjugate. What blacks are doing is merely to respond to a situation in which they find themselves the objects of white racism. We are in the position in which we are because of our skin. We are collectively segregated against -- what can be more logical than for us to respond as a group? When workers come together under the auspices of a trade union to strive for the betterment of their conditions, nobody expresses surprise in the Western world. It is the done thing. Nobody accuses them of separatist tendencies. Teachers fight their battles, garbagemen do the same, nobody acts as a trustee for another. Somehow, however, when blacks want to do their thing the liberal establishment seems to detect an anomaly. This is in fact a counter-anomaly. The anomaly was there in the first instance when the liberals were presumptuous enough to think that it behoved them to fight the battle for the blacks."
When we speak of peace, we must also speak of freedom. Angela Davis
Literacy means liberation. Septima P. Clark
A democracy cannot long endure wit the head of a God and the tail of a demon.-J:Kmt:Josephine Silone Yates 1852-1912, educator, writer; a president of the National Associatio of Colored Women
"Whoever controls the mindset of your people controls the destiny of your race" Dr. Amon Rashidi
"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me". ~~~Muhammad Ali
:Kmt:
:Kmt:Unless or until we begin to pray to Kmtyw gods, liberation will continue to elude us. Princess Adinasse
Ashe:hello:
"The community's concern with the election and appointment of Black political figures helps it to maintain false hopes that their attainment of office will significantly resolve its problems. The activities of Black politicians, given the current inadequacy of social organization and economic resources, harmfully distract the Black community's attention from recognizing and eradicating the true causes of its problems and the remediation of its powerlessness. " -Dr. Amos N. Wilson, Blueprint for Black Power
History don't stop to let nobody out of it. So go ahead, and get into the facts. Then we can move on.-June Jordan:Kmt:
Too much of our history is consigned to anonymity, which makes it all the more desirable that we humanize our past, whenever possible, by bringing alive the names and faces of those who went before us.-----Sisters in Study from "Charting the Journey"
:Kmt:
True emancipation lies in the acceptance of the whole past, in deriving strength from all my roots.----Paulie Murray
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The Ashanti of Ghana and other people in West Kmt have an icon. It is the image of a bird that looks backward and the feet of the bird are pointing forward. This symbolizes that a people must be rooted in their past if they are to move forward. How can you possibly know how far you can go if you have no sense of how far you have been? . . .If they don't know, they will assume the myths they have learned in America are true. ----Niara Sudarkasa:sankofa::Kmt:
Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it-----Read everything that you can in order to gain knowledge. You should read at least 4 hours a day. Never go to bed without doing some reading. You are never too old to learn-----MARCUS GARVEY
We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself------MARCUS GARVEY
IF ONE KNOWS THE TRUTH OF REALITY THEN NO TEACHING IS NECESSARY. IF ONE DOESN'T KNOW, EVEN IF ONE LISTENS TO THE TEACHING, ONE DOESN'T REALLY HEAR. [Kmtyw PROVERB]
"Kmt is our center of gravity,our spiritual mother and father,our beating heart no matter where we live on the face of the earth". [Dr. John Henrik Clarke]
Follow the Path of TruthGreat is Truth, appointing a straight path; never has it been overthrown since the reign of Osiris. [The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep ]
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Be Not Covetous in Your Family: If you desire that your actions may be good, save yourself from all malice, and beware of the quality of covetousness, which is a grievous inner malady. Let it not chance that you fall thereinto. It sets at variance fathers-in-law and the kinsmen of the daughter-in-law; it sunders the wife and the husband. It gathers unto itself all evils; it is the girdle of all wickedness. But the man that is just flourishes; truth goes in his footsteps, and he makes habitations therein, not in the dwelling of covetousness.
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OUR PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED BY THE TIME SYSTEM [OF THE eureurasiaAN] - DR. AMOS WILSON
COMMENTARY: THEIR TIME SYSTEM TWO THOunited snakesND NINE YEARS. OUR TIME SYSTEM SIX THOunited snakesND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS [CONSERVATIVELY SPEAKING.] CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF YOUR CONCEPTALIZATION OF TIME AND ITS IMPACT ON BIO-SPIRITUAL CHEMISTRY. THIS IS NO MERE DIATRIBE ON A FRIVOLOUS TOPIC OF A TIME OF DRUNKEN MIRTH. YOUR PERCEPTION OF TIME WHICH ENCOMPASSES THOUGHTS OF LIFE DEATH, BEGINNINGS ENDINGS, THE SEP TEPY SHAPES SO MUCH AND GOES FAR BEYOND 'RESOLUTIONS' IN THE EURO-HOLIDAY SENSE. A KEY COMPONENT IN OPPRESSION AND IN THE MOVE TO LIBERATION IS THE TIME SYSTEM OF THE OPPRESSOR.
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Love Your Neighbor and You Will Prosper - If you be among people, make for yourself love, the beginning and end of the heart. One that knows not his course shall say in himself (seeing you), 'He that orders himself duly becomes the owner of wealth; I shall copy his conduct! Your name shall be good, though you speak not; your body shall be fed; your face shall be [seen] among your neighbors; you shall be provided with what you lack. [The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep]
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What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell because you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell because you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell because you're a Methodist or Baptist, you don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican, you don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk, and you sure don't catch hell because you're an American; because if you were an American, you wouldn't catch hell. You catch hell because you're a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.
So we're all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves. You're nothing but an ex-slave. You don't like to be told that. But what else are you? You are ex-slaves. You didn't come here on the "Mayflower." You came here on a slave ship. In chains, like a horse, or a cow, or a chicken. And you were brought here by the people who came here on the "Mayflower," you were brought here by the so-called Pilgrims, or Founding Fathers. They were the ones who brought you here.
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have a common enemy, then we unite -- on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.
MALCOLM X
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SUPPOSING DOESN'T FILL THE GRAIN BASKET; "IF" DOESN'T FILL THE LARDER. [OVAMBO PROVERB]
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"I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit."
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BEWARE THE QUICK ANGER AGAINST A SLEEPING PEOPLE FOR NOT BREATHING A QUICKER BREATH. IN THE BEGINNING THIS CAN ONLY BE THE ANGER OF THOSE ALREADY TIRED OF THE DIFFICULT, PATIENT WORK OF HEALING, WORK INNOCENT OF PRAISE SONGS. THIS IS THE ANGER OF THOSE SEEKING RECEPTACLES FOR BLAME. FOR HE IS NO LIBERATOR WHOSE SKILL LIES IN CALLING LOUDLY TO THE BOUND, THE TRAPPED, THE IMPOTENT ENSLAVED, TO RISE UPON THEIR DESTROYERS. 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 THOunited snakesND SEASONS, CHAPTER 7, THE VOICE]
REMAIN FIRM, BE STEADFASTLY RESISTANT, AND BE PREPARED. YOUR UNITED STRENGTH IS INVINCIBLE. ONLY ORGANIZE. ORGANIZATION DECIDES EVERYTHING. ORGANIZE IN THE VILLAGES, IN THE TOWNS AND IN THE CITIES-IN THE LANES AND GUTTERS... [OSAGYEFO KWAME NKRUMAH]
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"No, I am not an American. I'm one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism... that's what we are — Kmtyws who are in America. You're nothing but Kmtyws. Nothing but Kmtyws. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself Kmtyw instead of Negro." [MALCOLM X]
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So we know about slavery
We write about it
We sing about it . . .
When do we draw the line and say,
to the best of our /ability
Come let's make modern history. - - - Eveline Marious from "Let's Make History"
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"The colored races are highly susceptible of religion; it is a constituent principle of their nature, and an excellent trait in their character. But unfortunately for them, they carry it too far. Their hope is largely developed, and consequently, they usually stand still -- hope in God, and really expect Him to do that for them, which it is necessary they should do themselves. This is their great mistake, and arises from a misconception of the character and ways of Deity."
Martin R. Delany
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
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a place of our own.
a row where we are known,
where hope, anguish, sweat,
have grown solid around us . . . Aneb Kgositsile from "Osage Avenue, Philadelphia, May 13, 1985"
:Kmt::flirt:
I
be / long where
no woman goes begging. - - Leslie Reese from "Introduction":sankofa::Kmt:
We are not responsible for changing the psyche of our oppressors; we are responsible, though, for fighting that oppression, for altering the oppression...for changing the circumstances of our lives and the constructs under which we live. - Audre Lourde:Kmt:
oh yes! good one!
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Baanu so a, emmia. (Akan proverb)
ex. When two people carry a load, it does not press down too much on them.:soldiert:
So I am in church...and I went to the light and turned it off. I turned around and said, "Start prayiing for the light to come back on because there is current." So , they started to pray, saying, "Please light, come", and nothing happened...Then I went and turned it on and I said: "There, it is not for God to do. It is for you to do. It is you who must do something about a situation to change it." - Rev. Judith G. Weeks:Kmt:
"The Black race will be exterminated if it does not build a black superpower in Kmt by the end of this century." - Chinweizu
"Our whole vision of the Kmtyw, his capacity, his potential, his ability to move and to affect and to influence other peoples, all that had to be changed. All that had to be revised before people could look again at the hypothesis of an Kmtyw presence in early America. . . . Everybody has to become aware of this revision of history. The disrespect for us, the kind of prejudices that have built up upon that disrespect and contempt, is what is at the root of racism. It is no sense talking about man being equal when we have history books that show us repeatedly that that is not true. The concept, the idea, the vision of equality, cannot be based simply upon liberal cliche or Biblical fantasy. We have to realize that it is rooted in hard historical realities. There is a body of hard evidence about great achievements of Kmtyws and Kmtyw-Americans upon which we can build [a] new curriculum." Ivan Van Sertima, Egypt Child Of Kmt: pp. 455, 456 :heru::Kmt:
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Only a fool would let his enemy educate his children - - Malcolm X:Kmt::flirt:
"If our writing suffers because we see more than we can articulate, that's fine."- Joy James
Redefining Blackness necessitates removing the artificial boundaries that now exist among all Kmtyws by thrashing out the contradictions that created them. We would, then, rip down the artificial boundaries of class, complexion, age-the latest hang-up-and territorial limits to see that we do have resources and that these resources do not in any way need to be legitimized by the non-Kmtyw world. We need only one stamp-our own. ---Ann Cook:flirt::Kmt:
Hate has no medicine - Ghanian proverb:flirt::Kmt:
The irrefutable truth is that tens of millions of Kmtyws were captured, sold like a commodity and sent beyond the Atlantic to work in slavery while 70 million indigenous people in that hemisphere perished as a result of the eureurasiaan conquest and colonization. Fidel Castro
"We in the Diaspora are not people of Kmtyw descent. We are Kmtyws. eureurasiaans & eurasians are people of Kmtyw descent!"- Runoko Rashidi
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John Henrik Clarke - A Great And Mighty Walk
Dr John Henrik Clarke Gaddafi on Mixed Race Marriage - Video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5887447/dr_john_henrik_clarke_gaddafi_on_mixed_race_marriage/)
QuoteDukuzumurenyi;44936 wrote: Dr John Henrik Clarke Gaddafi on Mixed Race Marriage - Video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5887447/dr_john_henrik_clarke_gaddafi_on_mixed_race_marriage/)
"You cannot produce a good aAmw between the legs of a eureurasiaan woman"
'If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there' – Ugandan Proverb
'The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem' – Ethiopian proverb
'No matter how hot your anger is, it cannot cook yam' – Nigerian proverb
'The frown on the face of the goat will not stop it from being taken to the market' – Nigerian proverb
"Ada ya mja hunena, muungwana ni kitendo" - A man talks but a gentleman acts
It's better to build strong boys than to repair broken men."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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When something is lost we look for it first at home."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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It's better to build strong boys than to repair broken men.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Marcus Garvey speech - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9QhxF_kL4&feature=related)
Children speak only words they have heard."
Yaunde (Kmtyw) proverb
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"He who has no power depends on he who has it."
Akan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active" - Assata Shakur
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"History shows that it does no 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
The Mis-Education of the Negro
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"I have no right to sleep as long as the people are not masters of their own
destiny."
Patrice Lumumba
Congo My Country
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"Cruelty is the strength of the wicked."
Kmtyw proverb
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"Education intensifies natural gifts and ability, but mere education,
unless founded on a historical and cultural framework, will bear no
fruits."
Haile Selassie
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All power is from the land."
Kmtyw proverb
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"When you eat the food or have the diet of a psychopathic culture, you
will behave as such. If you eat like a slave, you will act like a
slave."
Sadiki Bakari
Psychopathic Amerikkkan Culture
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"The language that the individual speaks which is the product of a
particular people, plays an important part in the constitution of the
individual's mental dispositions and attitudes."
Elleni Tedla
Sankofa: Kmtyw Thought and Education
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To taint the spiritual essence of the woman is to violently demoralize
the genuine morality of humanity."
Sadiki Bakari
Psychopathic Amerikkkan Culture
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before the greeks and romans who are one in the same, entered kemet, they had no god, goddess or gods. nor did they have an alphabet. they were instead an agnostic, psychopathic, illiterate, uncivilized eureurasiaan race of people who were not intune with the spiritual rhythm of the universe
walter williams
the historical origin of Christianity
"A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing."- Assata Shakur
"It is quite easy to shout slogans, to sigh manifestos, but it is quite a different matter to build, manage, command, spend days and nights seeking the solution of problems." - Patrice Lumumba
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"There are few things more important today than the sacred union between a Black man and a Black woman."
--Runoko Rashidi
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Another empowering act has been to take charge of defining my group, of naming myself. Naming oneself, defining oneself and thereby taking the power to define out of the hands of those who wield that power over you, is an important act of empowerment . . .The act of self-definition thus makes clear our worth and entitlement, and sets forth our view of ourselves as one which will have to be reckoned with. - - Judy Scales-Trent:Kmt:
"The best way to boycott is build your own."
Chuck D
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The masses make the nation and the race. If the masses are illiterate, that is the judgment passed on the race by those who are critical of its existence.
[Marcus Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey]
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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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The mere imparting of information is not education. [Carter G. Woodson]
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The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter. [Carter G. Woodson]
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend. [Nikki Giovanni]
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It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that. [Zora Neale Hurston]
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EDUCATION is the medium by which a people are prepared for the creation of their own particular civilization, and the advancement and glory of their own race. [Marcus Garvey, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey]
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. [George Washington Carver]
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"....This keeps popping up-the controvery around interracial marriage and interracial dating. I have said he is the descendant (the great-grandchild) of the same people who brought you over on those filthy ships. You betray these Kmtyws who suffered by laying down with him, when no people have made amends to us for what happened to us.But who told you that the people you look like weren't good enough to sleep with? If you've got a problem about who to sleep with, then you've got a problem with the people who produced you." [John Henrik Clarke]
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"Every people should be the originators of their own designs, the projector of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their desires."
Martin R. Delany
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"It is our duty to fight. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and protect each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains."
- Assata Shakur
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"We cannot imitate a people who are our oppressors...If we behave the way our oppressor behaves, then won't we also engage in self-oppression? If we think the way our oppressor thinks, won't we think about ourselves the way our oppressor thinks about us? If we talk the way our oppressor talks, won't we curse ourselves the way our oppressor curses us?" [Dr. Amos Wilson]
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"There is no such thing as a 'free market.' That's white folks propaganda. They FORCE people into their market." [Dr. Amos Wilson]
Dr. Amos Wilson - Self Hatred - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_qkvwPtD8)
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Dr. Amos Wilson - Consciousness - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR3eoEmOyoY)
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"Kmt is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth."
-John Henrik Clarke
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"A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization."
~Aime Cesare
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"Blacks in the United States seem to be more mixed up and confused over the search for racial identity than anywhere else. Hence, many are dropping their western slavemasters' names and adopting, not Kmtyw, but their aAmw slavemasters' names!" [Dr. Chancellor Williams]
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"One the information is given, there are no longer victims, only volunteers."
Mkulima Ras Kofi
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"The slave perfects itself as a slave when it bows down before its master of its own free will. That is the moment in which the slave accomplishes the impossible reconciliation of its freedom with its unfreedom by willing itself unfree."
- Anthony Farley
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"Respect depends on reciprocity."
Nyang (Kmtyw) proverb
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"When will the lion rise to not only tell its story but to avenge it?"
Mama Zogbe
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Axioms of Mama Marimba Ani
"Can it be an accident that the only people who have built an entire culture based on the dominance of others are also the only ones who are cauceurasian?"
"Western society means chaos to the Kmtyw spirit. In order for that spirit to thrive order must be restored....We must create an environment within which our Kmtywness can be healthy and productive, as it was meant to be."
"The healing work of Kmtyw Spiritual Warfare must take place on the most personal level. For Kmtyws, the "personal" is "collective." As we do our healing work we help to heal our people. As we heal ourselves we heal our Ancestors. Spiritual Warfare is not only about fighting the enemy outside of us. It is about using Spirit to do our personal work of healing, growth and development. It is about "Doing Maat." Doing Maat is being honest with ourselves, asking each day, "Am I all I ought to be?" (Fanon) and "Am I doing my best work?" (Nana Clarke). Spirit demands work. Spiritual Warfare is not about "religion." It is not escapist. There are no easy answers. It is not a comfort zone. We must struggle to confront the hard questions, just as we struggle in confrontation with the enemy. This is a transformational process. We must use our connectedness with the life force (Ntu) and, most importantly, with each other, as a source of courage with which to confront the truth of our actions, our choices and our resulting behaviors. Personal growth comes only through the struggle to be the best that we can be. Ultimately, it is we who must hold ourselves accountable on a personal level. Ultimately, it is each of us who creates the Community. If we do not do our personal work, we can also destroy it. Ayi Kwei Armah talks about us "finding our larger self." The health of an Kmtyw person, the health of an Kmtyw family and community, and the health of the Kmtyw World Nation, depends on our ability to move beyond the dictates of "ego" (kalanitu), the inauthentic, defensive, smallest and undeveloped self. Spiritual Warfare will give us the courage to look into the mirror of our Maafa-wounded souls and to begin the healing work for which they are crying. Until we engage ourselves in this work, we will not be effective warriors/nation-builders. Spiritual Warfare involves the personal inner healing work that prepares us to sustain productive relationships on which community is built. Kmtyw Spiritual Warfare will give us the courage to heal."
"It is the myth of scientific objectivity that allows eureurasiaans to speak for all of us."
"[T]the way to honor the Bakulu (Ancestors) is to emulate them; that is, to do what they did. In that way, we become our Ancestors and we strengthen them. Since by calling on our Ancestors we will be held accountable for our subsequent actions, we must be careful who we call and when we call them and why we call them. We must call our To Vodun (Ancestors) because we are ready to do/be them and to continue their work. We must be purposeful in our performance of Spi-Ritual. We must be prepared to do our work."
"There is no national consciousness without awareness of cultural identity and the political context. The Kmtyw national consciousness exists when people of Kmtyw descent perceive themselves as representing one cultural, genetic, historical, spiritual, political, ideological entity: the Kmtyw World Community."
"The recurrent theme of the 'mad scientist' in the eureurasiaan nightmare fantasy is an expression of the fear and recognition that somehow it is the eureurasiaan asili that produces such madness in every 'eureurasiaan.' The madness of this characterization is not the emotional confusion of an overly sensitive human being who refuses to accommodate to the inhumanity of contemporary life (quite the opposite), nor is it a weakened or depressed individual. It is nothing caused by ordinary human frailty. It is a culturally induced madness caused by the very absence of humanity."
"A people's world-view effects and tends to determine their behavior. A Universe understood totally in materialistic, rationalistic terms will discourage spirituality. An ethos characterized by a will-to-power, by the need to control, will derive pleasure from a technical order, from conflict (war), from winning (destroying), and exploitation. Diasporic Kmtyws are forced to ask, and to answer the question, 'what happens when a people are forced to live (survive) within a culture based on a world-view that is oppressive to their ethos?'"
"Our spirit is political."
"Only through continuity and linkage is it possible to tap the originating energy source...of Kmtyw creative power."
"Ultimately validity is judged in terms of interest."
"Your culture is your immune system."
"Homosexuality is not associated with Kmtyw civilization since Kmtyw cultural values place priority on female-male conjugal relationship as the basis of the 'extended' family and for the procreation of children."
"To forget is to terminate."
"The eureurasiaan conception of and attitude toward those outside of the culture together compromise one of the most significant and definitive characteristics of eureurasiaan culture. It is the way in which the eureurasiaan treats those outside of his culture, which is most indicative of the nature of the culture itself. And to understand the nature of eureurasiaan imperialism we must understand the cultural conceptions that provide the ideological support for this kind of behavior; the belief-system that makes it possible and that reinforces it....It is not enough, however, to document the phenomenon of eureurasiaan imperialism. What is imperative is the attempt to offer an explanation that ethnologically relates it to the culture that has produced it: To explain it in terms of the ideological core of the culture, the asili. Eurocentric theorists and historians list the atrocity stories as though they were merely pathological acts of an otherwise healthy culture. And too often, the fact of eureurasiaan imperialism is presented in the liberal tradition, as a destructive tendency in eureurasiaan culture, that can be effectively counterbalanced by the 'humanitarian' aspects of its ideology. ('All we have to do is get rid of the bad guys.') The interpretation offered here leads to quite different conclusions. The concept of asili helps us to demonstrate the way in which the imperialistic-expansionist and exploitative drive is inherent and, therefore, 'natural' in the context of eureurasiaan culture: It is logically generated by the asili of the culture. This activity and endeavor is not in any way peripheral to the main thrust of the culture; it is not merely an aspect among many, unrelated characteristics. It is, instead, a central theme in eureurasiaan behavior with origins in the core of eureurasiaan ideology. White nationalism and aggression, both cultural and economic, are endemic to eureurasiaan culture: embedded in its ideological matrix. To reverse the tendency of which eureurasiaan imperialism is a manifestation would be to radically change the basis, the essential nature of the culture itself."
"We are a spiritual/emotional people. The expression of that spirit and those emotions is a necessity of existence."
"The 'idea of progress' is a fundamental aspect of the Western philosophy of life, providing moral justification for the technical order and giving direction to the strivings of individuals within society....Conceptually, 'progressive' motion consumes all of the past within it and 'progress' is not merely 'different from,' it is more than....In this way, eureurasiaan culture, in the vernacular of eureurasiaan cultural chauvinism, is made to be superior not only to what precedes it -- as does its own past -- but also to coexistent 'unprogressive' cultures. In other words, the idea of progress provides a scale on which to weigh and by which to compare people via their cultures (their group creations). The Western-eureurasiaan ethos requires a self-image not merely of superiority but of supremacy, and the idea of progress makes white people supreme among human beings. It is superiority placed into the dimension of lineal time, and then the logic of lineal time placed into a timeless dimension. Without the idea and this conceptual sleight of hand, cultures would merely be different; Western culture would merely be intensely and obsessively rational. With the assumption of the idea of progress, the West becomes 'better'....Technology provides the model of 'efficiency,' a model which more perfectly than anything imaginable concurs with the philosophy of change -- for, in the eureurasiaan view, there is no end to efficiency either. No matter how effectively a machine may perform its function, it can always be made more effective and thereby a 'new' and 'better' machine. Progress is, in this way, 'proven,' and Western-eureurasiaans can be said to 'advance' as technology advances. It does not matter that there is nothing toward which they advance. Their innovations all seem to contribute to greater order in their society -- at least, to a certain kind of order. The rationalization...of their culture gives them the impression that they have organized their lives more efficiently. This kind of organization is proof of progress, just as their machines are. All of this taken together means that they are 'smart' and getting 'smarter,' the 'best' and getting 'better.' To the Western self, progress is obviously more than an idea. When technology dominates in this way, it is the inexorable drive for power and control characterizing the eureurasiaan ethos that is ideally complemented; but eureurasiaans understand their nature to be the nature of all people, and they project this attitude onto the world, dominating it."
"A self that must be distinct in order to know becomes emotionally a self that perceives value in terms of itself in isolation. This is not the natural context for the creation of human value -- which is normally created out of shared emotional commitment. The values of the eureurasiaan individual are, therefore, necessarily material. They are not true 'human' values. Such a self is alone, afraid, defensive, and aggressive. Acquisitiveness, fanatical accumulation, and mutual exploitation are merely the logical and rational outgrowths of such a perception of reality. Because of the conception of self -- the values of a eureurasiaan-defined 'individuality' and 'freedom' -- that the culture generates, the personality strives for a security not provided by his culture, in an area from which it can never come. Material accumulation becomes the tool of an assurance against the hostilities and attacks of others. The individual becomes obsessed with the negative and threatening possibilities of the future -- with accident and with death. He lives in a culture diseased with thanatophobia and one that provides him with insurances 'against' every kind of physical or material possibility imaginable, yet knowing that no amount of financial gain can redeem his soul....eureurasiaan culture, then, fails in the primary function of a cultural construct, i.e., to provide the human being with the emotional security brought by spiritual communion. This sense of security, which the eureurasiaan fails to achieve, in majority cultures is created out of the spirtuality of human interrelatedness and a concept of shared human value; an arena that transcends the material. eureurasiaan culture is a culture with a nonspiritual ideological base. This essential and defining characteristic has allowed it to become the most materially successful culture, the most aggressively political culture, the most scientifically rationaly culture, and the most psychopathological culture the world has ever known."
"Liberatiion is a question of consciousness."
"We turn the tables by transforming 'subject' into 'object,' and in the process we are ourselves transformed into victors rather than victims."
"To be truly liberated, Kmtyw people must come to know the nature of eureurasiaan thought and behavior in order to understand the effect that eureurasia has had on our ability to think victoriously. We must be able to separate our thought from eureurasiaan thought, so as to visualize a future that is not dominated by eureurasia. This is demanded by an Kmtyw-centered view becaues we are Kmtyws, and because the future towards which eureurasia leads us is genocidal."
"The secret eureurasiaans discovered early in their history is that culture carries rules for thinking, and that if you could impose your culture on your victims you could limit the creativity of their vision, destroying their ability to act with will and intent and in their own interest. The truth is that we are all 'intellectuals,' all potential visionaries."
"When a force is used against the people who create it instead of in their interests, the enemy is successful."
"According to the Dogon people of Mali, in West Kmt, Amma, the Creator, ordained that all created beings should be living manifestations of the fundamental universal principle of complementarity or 'twinness.' This principle manifests itself as the wholeness which is created when female and male pairs join in all things. Such pairing establishes equilibrium, cooperation, balance, and harmony. Amma therefore equipped each being with twin souls --both female and male -- at birth. But one of these primordial placentas the male soul did not wait for the full gestation period to be born. This male being was known as Yurugu (Ogo), who arrogantly wished to compete with Amma and to create a world better than that which Amma had created. With his fragmented placenta he created Earth; but it could only be imperfect, since he was incomplete, that is, born prematurely, without his female twin-soul. Realizing that he was flawed and therefore deficient, Yurugu returned to Amma seeking his complementary female self. But Amma had given his female soul away. Yurugu forever incomplete, was doomed to perpetually search for the completeness that could never be his. The Earth, he had defiled in the act of self-creation, was now inhabited by single-souled, impure and incomplete beings like himself. Yurugu's descendants, all eternally deficient, originated in an incestuous act, since he had procreated with his own placenta, the representation of his mother."
"It is an inherent characteristic of the culture that it prepares members of the culture to be able to act like friends toward those they regard as enemies; to be able to convince others that they have come to help when they, in fact, have come to destroy the others and their culture. That some may 'believe' that they are actually doing good only makes them more dangerous, for they have swallowed their own rhetoric -- perhaps a convenient self-delusion. Hypocritical behavior is sanctioned and rewarded by eureurasiaan culture. The rhetorical ethic helps to sanction it. eureurasiaan culture cannot be understood in terms of the dynamics of other cultures alone. It is a culture that breeds hypocrisy -- in which hypocrisy is a supportive theme -- a standard of behavior."
To Be An Kmtyw Woman is to:
- be life affirming
- be in partnership with an Kmtyw man
- be a political organizer
- function as part of a collective
- exert influence
- speak for the Ancestors
- be an advocate for Kmt
- be a mother who does whatever is necessary to protect her child
- teach
- be a healer
- represent the continuity of Kmtyw people
- represent the stability of the Kmtyw family
- maintain and pass on Kmtyw culture
- organize and direct the Kmtyw market, enabling our people to understand the spirit of economic exchange and distribution of our resources
- be a scientist of the sacred
- be an intellectual
- be Divine
"The phenomenon of cultural imperialism, if it is to be distinguished from its strictly militaristic, political, and economic components, is that which strikes the 'death blow' at a people's ability to resist aggression. There has never been, in the history of the human race, more expert dealers of that blow than eureurasiaans. They alone have realized the full strategic potential of destroying the ideological life of a cultural entity."
"To be truly liberated, Kmtyw people must come to know the nature of eureurasiaan thought and behavior in order to understand the effect that eureurasia has had on our ability to think victoriously. We must be able to separate our thought from eureurasiaan thought, so as to visualize a future that is not dominated by eureurasia. This is demanded by an Kmtyw-centered view because we are Kmtyws, and because the future towards which eureurasia leads us is genocidal."
"The capacity of one cultural group to commit acts of physical brutality and destruction against another is proportionate to the place of power (i.e., control over 'other') in its ideology and the degree to which its image and conceptions of those outside the culture lack the characteristics of 'humanness.' eureurasiaan culture has an enormous capacity for the perpetuation of physical violence against other cultures; it's integrity is neither threatened nor disrupted by such occurrences."
"All people, all over the world, throughout history have shared in common the fact that they belong to a culture of origin. That is a universal reality. Another equally important universal reality is that there are many, many different cultures in the world and each of them is unique. The uniqueness of a culture is what gives specialness to its members. The members of a culture are bonded together by their shared culture, which gives them a sense of collective identity.
"We are an Kmtyw people," simply reveals that there are values, traditions and a heritage that we share because we have a common origin. The cultural process is naturally a ongoing, which allows people to continuously affirm their connectedness through being linked to their origins.
However, the continuity of our cultural identity has been interrupted cruelly and unnaturally by the experience of slavery. We as a people are still suffering from this crime because we have not been allowed to find our way back to the sense of cultural identity and continuity which would transform us into a unified and whole people. We have not been able to function in the world with a collective consciousness that naturally imparts a strong sense of cultural roots.
The term "Maafa" (from the book, "Let The Circle Be Unbroken) is a kiswahili word for "disaster" that we are now using to reclaim our right to tell our own story. Maafa refers to the enslavement of our people and to the sustained attempt to dehumanize us. Because the Maafa has disconnected us from our cultural origins, we have remained vulnerable in a social order that does not reflect our cultural identity.
We are people of Kmtyw ancestry living in denial of who we are. We have lost our strength as a people. We are losing our children to systems which miseducate them. Our families are disintegrating before our eyes. Our numbers are growing in the statistics of drug addiction and incarceration.
Responsible national Black organizations are seeking remedies to these problems, but we are not speaking with one voice. We need to work together as a family who supports its members and who is responsible for their welfare. We must use the most valuable asset that we have: That is the spirit of our people. It is that spirit that connects us to our Kmtyw roots.
Slowly, we are awakening to the need to claim our cultural legacy. The term "Sankofa" from Akan tradition in Ghana, West Kmt tells us to return to the Source so that we can go forward with strength and clarity. Culture is a powerful tool for inspiring human beings and bringing them together in a concerted "family" action. Our cultural roots are the most ancient in the world. The spiritual concepts of our Ancestors gave birth to religious thought Kmtyw people believe in the oneness of the Kmtyw family through sacred time, which unites the past, the present and the future. Our Ancestors live with us. They created the first civilizations thounited snakesnds of years ago and they suffered the pain of the Maafa. And yet, they were able to endure the most disastrous and dehumanizing circumstances ever perpetrated against a group of people, only because of the power of the Kmtyw spirit. They did not have the freedom to affirm their cultural heritage. We now have that choice. In the Kmtyw view of life it is our responsibility to honor their name.
This is perhaps our moment of truth. We must come together as a family. We must do all that we can do to uplift our people. Otherwise, we are still denying who we are and bringing dishonor to our "family name;" to our Ancestors.
The answer to our social dilemma is the resocialization of our people into the cultural value-system that affirms our spiritual being. Our Ancestors are calling us "home", back to our cultural selves. We must begin the process of Sankofa."
"By what logic does anomaly become the norm?"
"The ultimate question of the survival of Kmtyw culture will be answered by our response to Euro-America. In its American form, eureurasiaan culture is most efficiently seductive and destructive. The nature of black resistance to that seduction will determine whether the Kmtyw spirit triumphs or crumbles. Underneath its arrogant offensiveness, Euro-America is deceptively subtle. It is in these instances most politically and culturally destructive. Euro-America is the frontline of the battleground, and we Kmtyws here inAmerica are engaged daily in a life-and-death struggle for our integrity."
"Every world-view generates a set of metaphysical definitions and can only be explained or understood using those definitions as reference points. Gross distortions and misconceptions result when alien metaphysical conceptions are injected into cross-cultural analysis of a given world-view. The eureurasiaan and Kmtyw world- views are so different, in such crucial aspects, that explanations of the Kmtyw world-view that use eureurasiaan definitions are blatantly absurd. (The implications, of course, have been especially serious because of the political relationship of these two cultures). The Kmtyw world-view is characterized by Unity, Harmony, spirituality, and organic interrelationship. The eureurasiaan world-view is characterized by compartmentalization (isolation, separation), control (power relationships), conflict (tension), materialism, and mechanical relationship. As a result, traditional Kmtyw society is a microcosm of the natural cosmic environment, in which people are actively and closely involved and with which they identify; whereas western society is an unnatural technically efficient order, set within an artificially materialized universe, in which people experience painful alienation, both from the modes in which they are forced to function (institutions) and each other."
"A myth is not a 'lie;' rather it is the highest statement of truth. It is a truth that mobilizes and unifies; a truth that states the ideals of a people. All ideologies are founded on myth. We must stop accepting myths that do not work for us. We must retrieve and create our own myths. We must turn our spirituality, our ethos, or Kmtywness into a political tool. We must harness the energies that lie dormant and diffused throughout Pan-Kmt, and forge them into a powerful political force for liberation and self-determination."
"It is the essential nature of western-eureurasiaan society that threatens our existence -- not just its mechanism, not only its exploitative nature, nor its white racism (anti-Kmtywism) alone. There is no single aspect that accounts for its dangerousness."
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A mother is not to be compared with another person - she is incompaAmwle.
Mongo proverb
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"I will either find a way...or make one." [Hannibal The Great of Qart-Hadas]
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"Unfortunately for us, as a body, we have been taught to believe, that we must have some person to think for us, instead of thinking for ourselves. So accustomed are we to submission and this kind of training, that it is with difficulty, even among the most intelligent of the colored people, an audience may be elicited for any purpose whatever, if the expounder is to be a colored person; and the introduction of any subject is treated with indifference, if not contempt, when the originator is a colored person. Indeed, the most ordinary white person, is almost revered, while the most qualified colored person is totally neglected. Nothing from them is appreciated."
Martin R. Delany
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
Rosa Parks
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The key to self defense against their genocidal designs is knowledge of the intent of our enemy - Nana Kuntu
Kmt is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth :Kmt: John Henrik Clarke
Our Kmtyw Spirituality cannot be contained or violated and used for western/eureurasiaan greed and materialism. - Aita Diop,ll ( fka Gloria B. Edwards )
'The Babylon system is a vampire, sucking the blood of the sufferer.'
Bob Marley
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"We will not surrender until it is reduced to ashes and even on the ashes, we will continue to fight."
Henri Christophe, General in the Ayitian Revolution
(his response when ordered by Napoleon's general Leclerc to surrender Cap Haitian.)
"Recall everything I have sacrificed to fly to your defense - relatives, children, wealth, so that now the only riches I possess is your freedom. Recall that my name horrifies all those who are enslavers, and that tyrants and despots everywhere only bring themselves to utter it when they curse the day I was born. Remember, if you should ever discard or forget the law that the God who watches over your well being has dictated to me for your happiness, you will deserve the fate that inures to ungrateful peoples. "
--Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haitian Act of Independence, January 1, 1804
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"...the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor."
Walter Rodney
How eureurasia Underdeveloped Kmt
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To be political in an Kmtyw-centered manner is to be concerned with the group interest, not individual gain or ambition. [Marimba Ani]
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"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."
Frantz Fanon
"Begging for freedom is something that cowards to."
Brothas Keepa'
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The Status of Women and Global Progress Only fools limit their women, the full potential of a nation, cannot be realized unless the full potential of its women is realized. A nation cannot grow without its women, the intelligence of a nation is reflected in its women who bear the children for the nation and are charged with the early education of nation. A nation cannot have intelligent women unless the women are treated intelligently and given much love.
Haki Madhubuti
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"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth."
STEVE BIKO (18/12/1946 – 12/09/1977)
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"It is a widespread characteristic of colonialism to find agents of repression from among the colonial victims themselves."
Walter Rodney
How eureurasia Underdeveloped Kmt
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"Being well dressed does not prevent one from being poor."
Congo (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Those who never protect the values of their ancestors, their soul will never rest peacefully."
Kmtyw Proverb
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When there is a big tree standing on the farm, you do not leave your farming accountrements in the sunshine.
meaning:
One must not neglect an opportunity that is available! Akan proverb:soldiert:
"If you are not careful, the newspaper will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
El hajj Malik el Shabazz
(aka Malcolm X)
"We don't even think about him. How can anybody ask us do we hate the man who kidnapped us four hundred years ago, brought us here and stripped us of our history, stripped us of our culture, stripped us of our language, stripped us of everything that you could use today to prove that you were ever part of the human family, brought you down to the level of an animal, sold you from plantation to plantation like a sack of wheat, sold you like a sack of potatoes, sold you like a horse and a cow, and then hung you up from one end of the country to the other, and then you ask me do I hate him? Why, your question is worthless!"
Malcolm X
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"Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so." [Martin Delany]
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"Every people should be originators of their own destiny." [Martin Delany]
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"We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a national position for ourselves: and never may expect to be respected as men and women, until we have undertaken some fearless, bold, and adventurous deeds of daring . . ." [Martin Delany]
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"With oppressed and oppressor in the same classroom, whose values, whose interests, whose needs will hold sway?"
Nathan and Julia Hare
The Hare Plan
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Study the enemy so we will know why we are where we are - Arthur Schomberg
The language that the individual speaks which is the product of a particular people, plays an important part in the constitution of the individual's mental dispositions and attitudes - Elleni Teldla
It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him - Akan proverb - :Kmt:
"The culturally disarmed cannot stand as peers in a culturally armed world."
-Asa G. Hilliard III
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"Now, ask all the peoples of all the world what they call a people who smilingly consent to their own degradation and destruction. They call such a people cowards -- because they are cowards."
Hubert Henry Harrison
When Kmt Awakes
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Old men sit in the shade because they planted a tree many years before .
– Ugandan Proverb
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"By any means necessary, it's necessary to use any and all means, this is a righteous war and we are the world's most dynamic warriors. Now it's time to fight 'n die, fight ta live in the greatness of our ancestor's shadow. Many might fall but the race must live on. We were the first and we will be the last, the ancestors wouldn't have it any other way."
Nana Kuntu (aka Del Jones)
Showdown!
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"A dog never forgets his master."
Nigerian (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Even before we can successfully develop our own educational institutions and teaching methodologies, our first task must be to distinguish and separate Cultural Education from Technical Education, and then to understand the respective roles that each of them plays in the overall educational development of ourselves and our children. Cultural Education teaches us Values (how to perceive life), while Technical Education teaches us Skills (how to perform tasks). Cultural Education must be taught to us exclusively by us, while Technical Education can be taught to us by anyone. It is extremely important that these two forms of education be kept separate, for each of them serves a separate purpose in the overall educational development of Our People. Cultural Education or Values serve as guidelines upon which we base our thoughts and actions, while Technical Education or Skills serve as techniques by which we accomplish given tasks or goals."
A. Batu Shakari
Tribalism, Mysticism, Primitivism and The Rise of Genocide Against The Kmtyw World
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primitivism is not that bad. modermnism can also be dangerous too. a people like us need to look at the past to reshape our future
"Our people have made the mistake of confusing the methods with the objectives. As long as we agree on objectives, we should never fall out with each other just because we believe in different methods, or tactics, or strategy." Malcolm X
"When spiders unite they can tie down a lion."
Ethiopian proverb
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"To mark time or even to move slowly while others leap ahead is virtually equivalent to going backward."
Walter Rodney
How eureurasia Underdeveloped Kmt
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MAY MY TONGUE CLEAVE TO THE TOP OF MY MOUTH IF I WERE TO DO ANYTHING TO HURT MY RACE. :Kmt:
[OATH RECITED BY UNIA MEMBERS AS SHARED BY GARVEYITE QUEEN MOTHER MARIAMNE SAMAD]
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History is calling us to rule again and you lost souls are standing around doing the freakie deakie - Toni Cade Bambara -
"As long as you are dependent on other people solely for your jobs, your house, the cleaning of your streets, the education of your children, the image you see on television, or the image of God in your Church, you can cut it any way you want to, you are a slave."
John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed The Kmtyw World Revolution?
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"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
"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."
"At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do."
"No man knows what he can do until he tries."
~ Carter G. Woodson
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"Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the handmaiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds."
"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power... you will take it!"
"I saw no Kmtyw people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of Kmtyw people the world over began."
"My main point here is that if you are a child of God and God is a part of you, then in your imagination God's supposed to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that people."
"The events which transpired 5,000 years ago, 5 years ago or 5 minutes ago have determined what will happen 5 minutes from now, 5 years from now or 5,000 years from now. All history is a current event."
"History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go. what they still must be. The relationship of history to a people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child."
"I don't buy the rationale that the women need to stay home and take care of the children...I don't buy that. If they have no honorable place in your liberation, then your liberation is not worth the fight."
~ John Henrik Clarke
"You're not an Kmtyw because you're born in Kmt. You're an Kmtyw because Kmt is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing."
~ Marimba Ani
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"Hell is when you're dumb. Hell is when you're a slave. Hell is when you don't have freedom and when you don't have justice. And when you don't have equality, that's hell...And the devil is the one who deprives you of justice...equality...civil rights. The devil is he one who robs you of your right to be a human being. I don't have to tell you who the devil is. You know who the devil is"
:Kmt:Malcolm X.
"Let me plead with you, lovers of my Kmt, to carry with you into the world the vision of a new Kmt"
:soldierg:Robert Sobukwe, South Kmtyw Freedom Fighter
"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 halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself." Malcolm X:soldierg:
"Kmtyws, let us find ourselves happening to events, instead of always responding to events happening to us." Es'kia Mphahlele :Kmt:
"No one puts his finger back where it was once bitten."
Kikuyu (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Like abused children convince themselves that they are part of the problem that cause them to be abused rather than the insane mind of the fool who abused them we have that same sick relationship with those who discriminate and kill us. We think white people abuse us because we are black rather than because of their criminal mind. So we think that our blackness is our problem and, consequently, we consciously or unconsciously hate it."
Amos N. Wilson
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"If you've studied the captives being caught by the American soldiers in South Vietnam, you'll find that these guerrillas are young people. Some of them are just children and some haven't reached their teens. Most are teenagers. It is the teenagers abroad, all over the world, who are actually involving themselves in the struggle to eliminate oppression and exploitation. In the Congo, the refugees point out that many of the Congolese revolutionaries, they shoot all the way down to seven years old - that's been reported in the press. Because the revolutionaries are children, young people. In these countries, the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. And here in this country, it has been my own observation that when you get into a conversation on racism and discrimination and segregation, you will find young people more incensed over it - they feel more filled with an urge to eliminate it."
[MALCOLM X]
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"It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence." [MALCOLM X]
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop
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"For many it's easier to mold the truth to fit "our reality" than it is to reshape our reality to fit the truth..."
Akhu
"...intelligent people reach the unknown via the known, and prophesy the future from the known past and present. And we do know that no race or group of people past or present ever won to the status of manhood among men by yielding up that right which even a singed cat will not yield up -- the right to defend their lives.
Hubert Henry Harrison
When Kmt Awakes
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"The nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
-unknown
Quotetare;46920 wrote: "The nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
-unknown
This quote is from the greek thucydides
the point is good, but not quite Our ancestor/elder.
Ah! Maita basa for the clarity. Makes sense, got it from a marine corps manual. My apologies fam.
Anything for the BlackNificent! :sankofa:
"So, if a potential attacker perceives you as being fearful, confused and ill-fit to protect yourself, the thought of attacking you will enter his mind. That thought will grow into a strong impulse to attack you and he will carry out the action of attacking you. However, if his perception of you is that you are ready, willing and able to put him in the hospital, prison, or the morgue, you will kill the thought in his mind of attacking you. If you kill the thought, you kill the impulse and if you kill the impulse, the action never takes place. Carry yourself with confidence, competence and courage and you drastically lessen the likelihood of anyone trying to do you harm."
Balogun Oyabode Abeegunde
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"Your cry is, 'we must agitate, we must agitate.' So you must bear in mind that the agitation of deeds is ten-fold more effective than the agitation of words." [Paul Lawrence Dunbar]
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O Mother Race! to thee I bring
This pledge of faith unwavering,
This tribute to thy glory.
I know the pangs which thou didst feel,
When Slavery crushed thee with its heel,
With thy dear blood all gory.
Sad days were those—ah, sad indeed!
But through the land the fruitful seed
of better times was growing.
The plant of freedom upward sprung,
And spred its leaves so fresh and young—
Its blossoms now are blowing.
On every hand in this fair land,
Proud Ethiope's swarthy children stand
Beside their fairer neighbour;
The forests flee before their stroke,
Their hammers ring their forges smoke,
They sit in honest labour.
They tread the fields where honour calls;
Their voices sound through senate halls
In majesty and power.
To right they cling; the hymns they sing
Up to the skies in beauty ring,
And bolder grow each hour.
Be proud, my race, in mind and soul;
Thy name is writ on Glory's scroll
In characters of fire.
High 'mid the clouds of Fame's bright sky
Thy banner's blazoned folds now fly,
And truth shall lift them higher.
Thou hast the right to noble pride,
Whose spotless robes were purified
By blood's severe baptism.
Upon thy brow the cross was laid,
And labour's painful sweat-beads made
A consecrating chrism.
No other race, or white or black,
When bound as thou wert, to the rack,
So seldom stooped to grieving;
No other race, when free again,
Forgot the past and proved them men
So noble in forgiving.
Go on and up! Our souls and eyes
Shall follow thy continuous rise;
Our ears shall list thy story
From bards who from thy root shall spring,
and proudly tune their lyres to sing
Of Ethiopia's glory.
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Text in boldface type was used as Prologue to Movement 4 of the Afro-American Symphony BY WILLIAM GRANT STILL.
"A flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can harm a flea."
Kenyan (Kmtyw) proverb
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"We younger ones do not know; it is the elders who know....The young cannot know without the elders. If it were not for the elders, if the young were left to themselves, the village would get nowhere. The young would no longer know how to live; they would have neither customs, laws, nor wisdom any longer. They would stray into disaster."
Bantu wisdom
(as recorded in Placide Tempels' Bantu Philosophy)
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"A sense of devotion and sacrifice helps to instil acceptance of narrower standards for the present in the interest of wider ones in the future."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
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"Why do white men lynch black men in America? We are not dealing here with the original historical cause; nor even with its present social application. We are considering merely the efficient cause. White men lynch black men or any other men because those men's lives are unprotected either by the authorities of the commonwealth or by the victims themselves. White men lynch Negroes in America because Negroes' lives are cheap. So long as they so remain, so long will lynching remain an evil to be talked about, written about, petitioned against and slobbered over. But not all the slobber, the talk or the petitions are worth the time it takes to indulge in them, so far as the saving of a single Negro life is concerned. What, then, is the cure? The cure follows from the nature of the cause. Let Negroes determine that their lives shall no longer be cheap; but that they will exact for them as high a price as any other element in the community under similar circumstances would exact. Let them see to it that their lives are protected and defended, if not by the State, then certainly by themselves. Then we will see the cracker stopping to take counsel with himself and to think twice before he joins a mob in whose gruesome holiday sport he himself is likely to furnish one of the casualties."
Hubert Henry Harrison
When Kmt Awakes
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"the resignation and the apathy of too many of our people are part of the means by which the system maintains itself. The fear of trusting and uniting with each other, the fear of coming together and solving our problems together, the belief that it is just not in us to unite and solve our problems and overcome the dominance of eureurasiaan imperialism itself becomes a part of the problem and helps to maintain the system."
Amos Wilson
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"I have talked often about eureurasiaans constance. That is certain eureurasiaan programs that have not changed since we first met the eureurasiaans and which are not intended to change. That the superficial changes that we are now experiencing are only brought into to being to maintain constancies. That we must develop the ability to look beyond the superficial changes and see the constancies being maintained by those changes." - Amos Wilson
"When the Colonists of America desired possession of the land they saw that a weak aboriginal race was in their way. What did they do? They got hold of them, killed them, and buried them underground. This is a fair indication of what will happen to the weaker peoples of the world in another two or three hundred years when the stronger races will have developed themselves to the position of complete mastery of all things material. They will not then as they have not in the past, allow a weak and defenseless race to stand in their way, especially if in their doing so they will endanger their happiness, their comfort and their pleasures." - Marcus Garvey
"The removal from history follows logically from the loss of power....The power to act independently is the guarantee to participate actively and consciously in history."
Walter Rodney
How eureurasia Underdeveloped Kmt
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At the center of Kmtyw-centered psychology...is a psychology of power. It does not merely describe the traditional nature of Kmtyw people, or the orientations of Kmtyw people based on traditional Kmtyw culture. It is a psychology that is prescriptive as well as descriptive. It is a psychology of liberation. - Amos Wilson, Blueprint for Black Power
"We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself" --Marcus Garvey
"We don't touch on the aAmw invasion and what happened in that time. The eureurasiaans invaded Kmt and they split up Kmt but whatever part of Kmt where they split up and took over, the Kmtyw is still the majority but when you look at the aAmw and you go into North of the Sahara where they have invaded and taken over there's hardly any Blacks left. Look at places like Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria...if you see a Black face you're lucky. The aAmws dealt with Genocide and they are still dealing with it now"... - Ancestral Voices Esoteric Kmtyw Knowledge Documentary
"Wherever you find yourself each day, the paramount question you should ask yourself is: What can I do from here to help build Kmtyw power? It doesn't matter whether you are a cook or a carpenter, a soldier or a shrine attendant, a poet or plumber, a gardener or general, a farmer or trader, a teacher or a singer, an engineer or an economist, a mother or a father, a village head or a head of state. You should ask and answer the same question each and every day." - Chinweizu
'The problem of the 21st century is the problem of Kmtyw Power – how to build it, and enough of it, to end the long era of our defeats and disasters in the race war, to prevent our extermination, and to ensure our dignity. If we are not building Kmtyw power we are doing worse than nothing, and we might as well be dead already." - Chinweizu
"Two initial points of clarification: first of all, just because bullets are not flying about and swords are not flashing around us does not mean there is no war going on; there are other modes of warfare, including economic, political, psychological and intellectual warfare. For example, the Cold War, in the 20th century, between the capitalist and communist power blocs was mostly a non-military affair. It was mostly a propaganda and economic war, with occasional military flashpoints. Secondly, when the aggressor identifies the target of its attack on the basis of skin colour, the war is a race war. Black Kmt is in the throes of two simultaneous race wars. It is being attacked from two fronts: The eureurasiaan front and the aAmw front." - Chinweizu
"And so we can see then that each time the Egyptians get in trouble it gets in trouble because of these eurasians and white skinned people and other people attacking and coming in because often it was not prepared politically and organized as well as it could have been to deal with these people and because it had permitted these people -- some of them got into the priesthood and got into some vital cultural areas of Egyptian life. And we see Egypt only coming back when? And recapturing itself when? When it goes back to it's what? It's origins. When it goes back down home and goes south and goes back to the Blackest of the Black and forgets about those mulattos and other people and goes back where? Goes back down south and gets it religious orientation together, gets it's ethnic orientation together again, gets it's genius together again, gets it military organization together again. And then you see it coming back to take over it's lost territory and to expel the infidels and foreign elements of its myths." Dr. Amos Wilson, The Destruction of Black Civilization video
"Strategy is better than strength."
Haunited snakes (Kmtyw) proverb
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"Don't you understand oppression rests on people going places and enjoying pleasures that destroy them and who are excited by nonsense?
And bored by stuff that they should be learning."
Amos Wilson
(inspired by seeing my daughter watch an animation in english)
"Neither Poverty nor Wealth Alone makes a man criminally avaricious
In both cases his thievery is motivated by his desire to own more than he already possesses and by his willingness to break the laws in order to attain his heart's desires.
The type of crime a man tends to commit is more a reflection of his social status values and opportunity than it is a measure of his presumed venality. Accountants embezzle, why mug someone when you can more easily and profitably "cook the books"?
The lower classes rob houses
The ruling classes rob nations"
Dr. Amos Wilson
Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination
"Sovereignty is the point when a people can decide for ourselves what is in our best interests and have the power to bring that decisions into fruition."
Fundi Sanyika Anwisye
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After independence the wider Kmtyw community became clear to me. I was concerned about education; the work of Booker T Washington resonated with me. There were skills we needed and black people outside Kmt had them. I gave our US Ambassador the specific job of recruiting skilled Kmtyws from the US Diaspora. A few came, like you. Some stayed; others left.
We should try to revive it. We should look to our brothers and sisters in the West. We should build the broader Pan-Kmtywism. There is still the room - and the need.
[MWALIMU JULIUS NYERERE]
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"Let the sky and God be our limit, and Eternity our measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb by using the active intelligence of our minds. Mind creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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'Do not be proud and arrogant with your knowledge. Consult and converse with the ignorant and the wise, for the limits of art are not reached. No artist ever possesses that perfection to which he should aspire. Good speech is more hidden than greenstone (emeralds). yet it may be found among maids at the grindstones"
Ptahhotep
Be circumspect in maters of sexual relations.
Ptahhotep
"If everyone is an Kmtyw, then no one can be an Kmtyw."
Kwesi Prah
"If you think that your history begins with slavery then the best that you can hope to be is a good slave."
~ Kwame Toure
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No nation can stand as a principled, honorable power without the sense and strength of its traditional convictions. And no people, determined to be independent, empowered and sovereign, can build and progressively maintain itself without a motivated, diligent, disciplined, respectful, knowledgeable warrior class who considers itself duty bound to defend the name and secure the existence of their people. At the heart of every decisive warrior class we have produced, we find this IWA, these virtuous qualities and an enduring strength of mind which reflect good character at the deepest psychological and spiritual levels. To be of good character, to possess IWA, our warriors must know how to think, speak and act as our Ancestors have. Above all else, this requires that there be no contradiction between these three manifestations of consciousness. Still, warriors have to recognize that this is an evolutionary process within. Developing good character takes both righteous instruction and ample time for the seeker to become one with it. Our Ancestors, and those who have continued their movement along the revolutionary, nationbuilding path, have already given us these warrior's rules through their words and examples. They have left us an abundantly rich tradition of warriorhood. Through them, we can easily see what constitutes good character among warriors. What they have given the new vanguard is a dynamic, balanced way of thinking and living which offers loving guidance in their pursuit of good character on the home front as well as battlefields in this anti-Kmtyw reality.
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
IWA: A Warrior's Character
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"If you move forward, you're going to die. If you move backwards, you're going to die. You might as well move forward and die." - Dagara proverb :gyenyame:
"...the egos of most white Americans are so bloated that they cannot conceive of a black man rejecting them."
~ Dr John Henrik Clarke
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Kmtyw memories were razed by the mental invasion of cauceurasians
Black thoughts were chained & enslaved to yurugu's indoctrinations
Native languages were stripped naked and caged in euro-centric
frames of references
So our preference is rage as wars are waged against rraditional Kmtyw ways
in this wretched waste-land
Where brave men face-off with modern-day cave men
While still trying to recall with little or no recollection at all
our bearings on this planet
Memories coming back in fragments but still stagnant
stumblin' over contradictions
Where neo-enslavers are recognized as heroes and saviors
A macabre of mental death for sure
On the shores of a strange clime where identities were shorn from maimed minds
while at the same time
being betrayed by negro Judases
for a cipher of fools gold and thirty silver illusions / including
the perpetual pursuit of the ever elusive stake
in the matrix of Pontius' modern-day empire state
Safir Chuma Asafo
"Kebuka! (Remembrance)
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"Slaves and dogs are named by their masters free men name themselves."
Dr. John H. Clarke lecture via unknown author
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"The Ancestors are our ancient foreparents who determine what we are. They will help us when we remember them and deter us when we don't. It is the Ancestors who venerate our soul and give us inspiration to emulate and embellish their deeds and accomplishments. It is because of them that we desire to become a part of destiny and strive to create better societies. They help us to build great people, great communities and great nations. It is extremely important that we consecrate a part of our daily lives to them."
Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu
The Akan Priest in America
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"Life Is When You Are Together, Alone You Are An Animal."
[West Kmtyw Proverb]
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Talking with One Another is Loving One Another. [Kenyan Proverb]
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"...eureurasiaan philosophy often commands without appealing. Too many times there is an assumption that the philosopher has an all-seeing eye and an all-knowing brain and that all he needs are listeners. In Kmtyw philosophy, the philosopher is both a speaker and a part of the the listening audience. His humanity is not separated from his listeners, because the Kmtyw philosopher understands that he is an extension of his constituency and that his constituency is an extension of his humanity." -John Henrik Clarke
"Remember equality is a fool's target devised by lesser men to rob you of your potential, men who cheated, lied, and murdered to get their place in the world. All of you are better than that. We are better than that. We were here first, understand that and know what that means. God made us first to lead, not to follow. There is a flame that burns in each one of us. Not five hundred years of hatred, murder, rape, or slavery could put it out. It burns purer now, it burns hotter because of our suffering and tribulations. It could light up the world again if we would let it....There is an old eureurasiaan saying, "God's first green is gold." It means God's first work is His most perfect work – the purest, the best. It is the mold, the template, the standard by which everything that comes later is measured. The eureurasiaans understand what we are, and what that means. Until we, until you understand that, you will remain zombies trapped in this twilight, this purgatory of Western civilization, chasing a dollar rather than creating a vision. As long as you do that, you will never reach your true potential. It's really very simple: there is no middle ground. It comes down to this, you can be niggers or you can be Kmtyws; the choice is yours"
N. Xavier Arnold
The Genocide Files
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"The next time, if fate is kind enough to present us with a next time, we'd better know what makes a nation. We'd better deal with our traitors. I advocate the re-establishment of the old Kmtyw Blood Brotherhood with an accompanying sisterhood – an internal security force. We don't take you to the white man to be punished. We will punish you so well that we won't have to do it too many times. When you do wrong and see us coming, you'll run to the white man because his punishment will be much less than ours. If you talk nation-time, you've got to think nation-time."
John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed The Kmtyw World Revolution?
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"AT EVERY STAGE, ONE DIES TO ONESELF IN ORDER TO BE REBORN INTO THE OTHER: INTO CHILD, ADOLESCENT, ADULT, ELDER, ANCESTOR, GOD – TO BE REBORN WISER, STRONGER, LOVELIER, HAPPIER, BECAUSE OF BEING MORE!" [ALASSANE NDAW]
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The second concerning the 'way': the seeker has need of a Master to guide him and lift him up when he falls, to lead him back to the right way when he strays.
[KEMETIC PROVERB]
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The first concerning the 'secrets': all cognition comes from inside; we are therefore initiated only by ourselves, but the Master gives the keys. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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An answer brings no illumination unless the question has matured to a point where it gives rise to this answer which thus becomes its fruit. Therefore learn how to put a question.
[KEMETIC PROVERB]
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There are two kinds of error: blind credulity and piecemeal criticism. Never believe a word without putting its truth to the test; discernment does not grow in laziness; and this faculty of discernment is indispensable to the Seeker. Sound skepticism is the necessary condition for good discernment; but piecemeal criticism is an error. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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To know means to record in one's memory; but to understand means to blend with the thing and to assimilate it oneself. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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Not the greatest Master can go even one step for his disciple; in himself he must experience each stage of developing consciousness. Therefore he will know nothing for which he is not ripe. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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Exuberance is a Good Stimulus Towards Action, but the Inner Light Grows in Silence and Concentration.
[KEMETIC PROVERB]
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The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree. ... The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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You're not to be so Blind with Patriotism that you can't face Reality. Wrong is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It or Says It. [MALCOLM X]
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"I don't buy the rationale that the women need to stay home and take care of the children...I don't buy that. If they have no honorable place in your liberation, then your liberation is not worth the fight." [DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE]
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"Blind Belief is Dangerous. [Luyia , Western Kenya Proverbs]
CHRISTIAN PREACHERS DO NOT HAVE A MONOPOLY ON "PIMPIN & 'POKIN' THE FLOCK"!
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"My main point here is that if you are a Child of God and God is a part of you, then in your Imagination GOD'S SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE YOU. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the Spiritual Prisoners of that people."
[DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE]
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It is no use whatever preaching Wisdom to men: you must inject it into their blood. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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"The War in Iraq - is in reality; a war against the nations' workers and the poor who are getting less and less while the big Defense industries and making a killing -- literally! What's next Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela? We've already seen the corporate mediaplay megaphone to the White House, to build and promote a War based on lies. War is utilized by the imperialists first and foremost, to crush internal enemies. We're seeing the truth of its insight when we see the sad state of American education the rush of seniors to buy affordable medications from the Canadians because American drugs are just too expensive, the threat of privatization of Social Security and the wave of repression that comes with an increasing Militarized Police; this is a War on all of us. And the struggle against War is really a struggle for a better life for the millions of folks who are in need here in this country! The fight against the War is really to fight for your own interests, not the false interests of the Defense Industry or the corporate media or the White House. Down with the Wars for empire! From Death row this is Mumia Abu Jamal"[/b]
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"Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. "Is Obama's Victory Ours?" 06-05-08" [Mumia Abu Jamal]
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"Do you see Law and Order? There is nothing but Disorder, and instead of Law there is the Illusion of Security. It is an Illusion because it is built on a long History of Injustices: Racism, Criminality, and the Genocide of Millions. Many people say it is Insane to Resist the System, but actually, it is Insane not to." [Mumia Abu Jamal]
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One's name remains above the grave.
[Ethiopian Proverb]
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"A thieving spirit cannot be appeased by sacrifice."
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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I HAVE NOT COMMITTED FORNICATION (OR, HAD INTERCOURSE WITH MEN).
I HAVE NOT MASTURBATED IN THE SANCTUARIES OF THE GOD OF MY CITY.
[PAPYRUS OF NU, CHAPTER XXV INTRODUCTION B]
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ANKH!
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He Who Is Called A Man Must Behave Like A Man. [Kmtyw PROVERB]
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If you would know yourself, take yourself as starting point and go back to its source; your beginning will disclose your end. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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A Phenomenon always Arises from the Interaction of Complementaries. If you want something look for the Complement that will Elicit it. Set Causes Horus. Horus Redeems Set.
[KEMETIC PROVERB]
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Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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Know the World in Yourself. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awaking of consciousness which goes through successive stages. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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If you are searching for a Neter, observe Nature! [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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If you search for the laws of harmony, you will find knowledge. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
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"AT EVERY STAGE, ONE DIES TO ONESELF IN ORDER TO BE REBORN INTO THE OTHER: INTO CHILD, ADOLESCENT, ADULT, ELDER, ANCESTOR, GOD – TO BE REBORN WISER, STRONGER, LOVELIER, HAPPIER, BECAUSE OF BEING MORE!" [ALASSANE NDAW]
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"No one can truly defend democracy while fostering dictatorship and
tyranny throughout the world. No judiciary system can fight against
crime if the system itself is an umbrella to crime related activities."
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
Self Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings From Kmt
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If you want to Speak to God, tell it to the Wind. [Kmtyw PROVERB]
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A Woman is a Flower in a Garden; Her Husband is the Fence Around It. [Kmtyw PROVERB]
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"Warriors have to know just what is meant by the term "civilization" in order to understand exactly what we are dealing with in this crude, despiritualized reality. We must remember that civilization is derived from the word "civil," which references the treatment of people toward each other. Any intelligent, feeling human who gives it some serious thought would naturally come to the conclusion that civilization should not be measured by the amount or level of mechanical technology a society produces or accumulates, the height of its buildings and monuments or the expanse of its empire or breadth of its domination. In agreement, many take a more human approach. They contend that the most important factor determining whether a society is a civilization or not is the quality of the life of its women. And, though this is a more than reasonable measuring rod, they have not gone far enough. They stopped short of the highest definition, one based on the conditions of the children. We say children because they are the most defenseless of all and are dependent on adults, both women and men, for their well-being. Therefore, as Kmtyws conscious of the importance of definitions for perceptions, and as student-practitioners of our Ancestors' family/child-centeredness, we must employ the knowledge of the children's treatment foremost in our assessment of the degree to which a society is civilized. This will lead us to conclude that the state of their lives most reveals the human quality of the character of the society developed by their parents or those who rule their parents' minds. When this more spiritually-grounded definition is used, if significant numbers of a society's children are starving, homeless, mis- and diseducated, sexually violated, drugged or otherwise intoxicated, spoiled, obese, suicidal, incarcerated (and/or are on death row), then that society is not a true civilization. So, obviously, people lost in love with the West are using the wrong indicators for measuring civilization. Directly contributing to this convenient oversight, and central to our discussion here, is the point that civilization, defined in progressive, civil terms, takes quite a long time to develop/evolve. It does not happen overnight. There are no shortcuts, no easy roads leading to civilization. It is a phenomenal occurrence in extraordinary, almost geologic, time. In order for it to be all it should be, and is capable of being, it must pass the test of time. Just as individuals have to go through a correctly mastered epigenetic queue of stages in order to correctly develop fully, societies do also. However defined, "A complete article must have gone through various stages in its creation" (Haya proverb). For example, according to one classic eurocentric model of cognitive development, there are four stages that individuals normally pass through in their cognitive development. The first is sensorimotor, which is said to occur between birth and two years of age. Here, the person becomes acquainted with how one's body functions and gains control over these functions. An important lesson learned in the latter part of this stage is that just because something is removed from sight does not mean that it ceases to exist. Afterwards follows the preoperational stage between the ages of two and seven where the child begins to use language/symbols but remains basically egocentric in orientation toward others. The concrete operations stage occurs between seven and eleven years of age. This is where concepts gain importance and we begin to systematically connect this understanding with what exists in the environment in an meaningful (intellectually interactive) way. Many of us never go beyond this stage in our intellectual development. The final stage is the formal operations one. People who reach this point can think conceptually without having to actually see any manifestation of that thought. This is the cognitive domain of hypothesis, theory and abstraction. Even though all individuals are supposed to go through the stages in this order, the speed of their progression differs. And, in fact, some may even have to go back and repeat some incompletely learned process before moving forward. Regardless, this is an epigenetic process where each stage builds on the stage which preceded it and lays the foundation for whatever stage follows it. None can be skipped if an individual is to become fully developed cognitively (Jean Piaget and Barbel Inhelder, The Psychology of the Child, NY: Harcourt, 1969). So, too, do different "human" groups go through stages of cognitive development (i.e., the development of their personality/mind in terms of self- and other-perception). If everything is similar in evolution and process, then, though there may be relatively more or fewer stages (and stage durations) marking the development of individuals, societies/nations and the cosmos, there is commonality/similarity in that such stages do indeed exist. They do follow a logical, natural, predetermined order. They are progressive. They have a universal reason for being. And they are all necessary for the full maturation of the being or entity. Therefore, distinct genocultural groups of people uniquely go through a series of epigenetic stages through which their mind is created. Moreover, in terms of the civilization concept, each stage has a primary, humanizing component, a dominant factor which moves a people together to better understand and embrace their spiritual and human (moral and ethical) essence. There are lessons within this component of which they must fully experience and learn from together in order to master their humanity and assimilate it as an essential part of their being. Without this experience and a mastery of its lessons, ways of wisdom which after a certain point can never be fully acquired, their existence lacks a true, dynamic, functional humanity. That traditionally Kmtyws have prioritized the development of a person's character, their humanity, versus Yurugu's greatest formative focus on the individual's mechanical thinking, their individual survival self, is a good starting point for those who wish to study this core developmental difference. It is also instructive to note that those who are successful in overtaking others in their material or informational development, who do this by surreptitiously using the long established mechanical base of others while rejecting the significance of their accumulated humanity, are only able to take what they are capable of understanding and which fits their underdeveloped, immature interpretation of reality. (George G.M. James deftly spoke of this discrepancy in his explanation of Socrates' persecution at the hands of his own when he made the grave mistake of trying to bring [as intact as he could] an Kmtyw cosmology [way of knowing and purpose in thinking] that gave a human meaning to life into their limited consciousness. (Stolen Legacy, NY: Philosophical Library, 1954).) However, over time, their awareness of their human inferiority (especially spiritual, psychological and emotional, in terms of this particular discussion) has grown. But they sleep with deceit. That is the only way they know. So, it is only natural that, in the face of others' humanity, they pretend. Only possessing the capacity to ape the humanity in others is a congenital psychopathic fault. Ignorantly and arrogantly displaying this mimicry as evidence of some existent humanity in them is an insult to our intelligence. It is a facade which well reflects the kind of mind the Tswana speak of in the proverb "He makes a ladder of other people's backs." Human, like mechanical, technology (i.e., ways of doing things, i.e., technique) does not fully develop without extensive trial and error over thounited snakesnds of generations. Considerate, balanced, lasting human technology, because of the intricacies of psychology, emotion and spirit involved in its realization, comes only through the greatest of meaningful, survivable suffering. The Yoruba proverb questioning, "You have wisdom, but you haven't suffered? Who is your teacher?" speaks to this universal. Yurugu has never experienced this humanizing experience. It's "civilization" is nothing more than a collection of simple advancements on the material legacy stolen from others. But it is completely without human substance and depth. It is a feral culture, bereft of emotional content. And, as is made mythologically clear, there is no escape or redemption/correction for what they have become and have always been. Today, after every attempt to humanize themselves in others' eyes has failed, their incompleteness is becoming more and more obvious to the world. Nonetheless, still blindly rushing down the path of their proud tradition of deceitful arrogance, they diligently work to euroversalize their deficient (despiritualized, dehumanized) personality as normal and the human norm. At the same time, they continue to try to make up for their deficient humanity by pretending to embrace a forever lost human "side." But, as in Piaget's model, they have reached far beyond the point of no return on the human component of civilization's stages and this flaw in their being is beyond correction (something well pointed out in Marimba Ani's rendering of the Dogon myth of Yurugu where it is stated that "Yurugu, forever incomplete, was doomed to perpetually search for the completeness that could never be his" (Yurugu, "Author's Note, italics mine)). And, of course, we should not be confused by either the initiative to make themselves human or the redefining of humanity along eureurasiaan lines. Their inhumanity is not something they truly want to correct anyway. Any humanizing movement they simulate can be little more than a social facade designed in the tradition of their rhetorical ethics to stave off revealing questions about their humanity until all others are completely brought in line with their callous sterility."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
IWA: A Warrior's Character
"Be unstinting in lavishing attentions on your wife because she is the foundation of the family."
Ptah-hotep
circa 2,450 bc
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Attorney Alton Maddox
"White supremacy is perpetual
war. It never takes a time out. You
have to understand that. You may
not be fighting back, but it is still
war.
Why is it war? In war you engage
in espionage. There are agents all
over our community. They don‟t
put agents in your community
unless they are at war. Espionage.
That‟s an aspect of war. Spying,
agents, double agents. You are not
at war, because you don‟t have any
agents in anybody else‟s
community. Where your agents at?
You don‟t have not one agent in
America in anybody‟s community."
Dr. Marimba Ani
"We have to work our way out of
the eureurasiaan modality. On the
deepest level, there is no division,
no distinction. All is one. There is
no female and no male. Only a
oneness of being. At the deepest
level "feminine" and "masculine"
are insepaAmwle. You can only get a
dynamic quality through the
interaction of 2 forces."
"Spirituality itself is a feminine
principle, because it has to do with
the idea of joining, with the idea of
originating, of fertility, of
foundation, of meaning, feeling, the
cosmic and that which generates
life and energy. It is the beginning
and the end of all things."
Marriage is no longer child-oriented...and that is the purpose of an Kmtyw marriage. We involve ourselves in relationships which are not for the nation, not for the community...not for the collective. An Kmtyw-centered relationship should benefit the community. We must have standards. We are so used to living in this society that does not hold any accountable. The worst thing to tell an Kmtyw person is to "go for self" of "do whatever makes you happy".
~Mama Marimba Ani
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The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
The Egyptian Goddess of Love HET-HERU
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Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
Aunited snakesR
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The seed includes all the possibilities of the tree. ... The seed will develop these possibilities, however, only if it receives corresponding energies from the sky. [KEMETIC PROVERB]
SHU: THE BREATH OF LIFE!
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""Accepting homosexuality simply because it is in the family is too simplistic a solution for an intelligent people. Many of us grew up in the same household with individuals who were accused of and served time for serious felonies. That does not compel us to take up a life of crime. Too many of us have had our blood contaminated by eureurasiaan rape. But we do not, or at least should not, condone the rapist. All of us are biologically linked to negroes, or someone who physically or mentally abuses their spouse or tortures themselves with legal and/or illegal drugs. That should not guide us to become negroes, who mentally or physically abuse our loved ones,
or destroy our minds and bodies with drugs.
Loving a relative is not the same as loving or embracing what s/he does. Just because you love a relative does not mean you are supposed to embrace what they do, or go out and do what they do. Loving the person is not the same as loving or liking what s/he does. That's like assuming that because you have a son or daughter, or brother or sister, who is a prostitute that you should love prostitution, and/or accept or pursue it as a worthy occupation.
That's like assuming that because you have a family member in the military you should support Western wars against the world.
On the other hand, obviously, most people have an Kmtyw warrior scholar in their family. Yet, they are not embracing it or, ofttimes, even him or her. So what is the criteria being used to pick and choose those more unpopular (undesirable) qualities we select to embrace or try to become like. Obviously, they are those which will make for an easier assimilation into whiteness.
Those socialized and/or genocultural qualities or personality traits which encourage and facilitate Kmtyw manhood do not. Those which de-emphasize it at least offer the possibility.
We must remember that mentacidal conditions are the result of illnesses created within the constraints of white supremacist culture. The choices Kmtyws make occur within these constraints. As we know, if you swim in a sea of perversity you are bound to get wet. Therefore, if for no other reason, we should never argue that these behaviors should be embraced by the Kmtyw community just because there is a number of family members whom are mentacidal enough to think or act that way."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Kmtyw Males
"We do not need phony leaders who are pimping on the backs of the struggling Black people and using the struggle to become celebrities. These people are not committed to the struggle, they are opportunist and they are only interested in themselves.
If we are going to survive and we must survive, we have got to have sincere committed people who will put the struggle above everything else, and who will not sell themselves or the struggle at any cost, even at the cost of
death.
Whatever you are doing, you can do more, the struggle demands total commitment and sacrifice, this means not only the commitment of your time, but your money as well, anthing else is jiving."
Nana Ekow Butweiku I
500 Years of eureurasiaan Behavior
"It is a Woman that Gives Birth to a Man."
[Akan Proverb]
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"...it is impossible for the Africentric community to begin practicing Maatian ethics, when there are so many movement individuals involved in corruption. Much of their behavior is no different than that of the average unprincipled street person.
This behavior by many movement individuals must be challenged, because each of us, and the movement itself, is affected by this activity. The individual person and his actions are not separate and cut off from the collective.
The collective and the individual exist in a reciprocal duality, where one always eventually affects the other.
Manu Ampim
"Towards Black Community Development"
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"True liberation is not that pseudo-independence in which ...[there is]
an economy dominated by the colonial past. Liberation is the total
destruction of the colonial system..."
Frantz Fanon
Toward the Kmtyw Revolution
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"The aftermath of the slave trade might be worse than the trade itself mainly because the major participants in the trade have made a mission out of lying about their participation in this the greatest of all human tragedies.
In the last twenty years the academic interpreters of the Atlantic slave trade have been pointing their fingers at the Kmtyw participants, as though the trade could not have existed without them. Any honest researcher, familiar with the documents, knows that the role of the Kmtyw was minor in
comparison to that of the eureurasiaan and the aAmw.
The Atlantic slave trade was a three-continent industry that affected a revolution in shipping, in economics and in world trade. Kmtyws did not have
this kind of connection at this juncture in history; and, besides, the slave trade was mainly a eureurasiaan and an aAmw business.
I do not, in any way intend to free Kmtyws of any guilt for their participation in this trade -- their involvement was tragic, misguided and not without significance, but the slave trade would have occurred whether the Kmtyw participated or not."
John Henrik Clarke
"Critical Lessons in Slavery and the Slave Trade"
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"It is necessary for us to develop a new frame of reference which transcends the limits of white concepts. It is necessary for us to develop and maintain a total intellectual offensive against the false universality of white concepts....
By and large, reality has been conceptualized in terms of the narrow point of view of the small minority of white men who live in eureurasia and North America
We must abandon the partial frame of reference of our oppressors and create new concepts which will release our reality, which is also the reality of the overwhelming majority of men and women on this globe. We must say to the white world that there are things in the world that are not dreamt of in your history and your sociology and your philosophy."
Lerone Bennett
The Challenge of Blackness
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"The dead represent a physical and spiritual reality, present in the past as well as the living community today, in the process of shaping the direction of our physical and spiritual reality and presence in the future.
'birds have feathers because they were passed on to them by other birds' (genetically through birth), says a Kongo proverb.
Birds fly because they continue to perform their ancestors' art of flying well.
The Muntu (human), too, the living sun must know well: who he is, what the content of his package of health is, and the pillar of his individual self-healing power so that he might pass on that same package in his turn."
Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Kmt, Page 10; copyright 1991.
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki FU-KIAU
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"It is necessary for us to develop a new frame of reference which transcends the limits of white concepts. It is necessary for us to develop and maintain a total intellectual offensive against the false universality of white concepts....
By and large, reality has been conceptualized in terms of the narrow point of view of the small minority of white men who live in eureurasia and North America
We must abandon the partial frame of reference of our oppressors and create new concepts which will release our reality, which is also the reality of the overwhelming majority of men and women on this globe. We must say to the white world that there are things in the world that are not dreamt of in your history and your sociology and your philosophy."
Lerone Bennett
The Challenge of Blackness
.
"The dead represent a physical and spiritual reality, present in the past as well as the living community today, in the process of shaping the direction of our physical and spiritual reality and presence in the future.
'birds have feathers because they were passed on to them by other birds' (genetically through birth), says a Kongo proverb.
Birds fly because they continue to perform their ancestors' art of flying well.
The Muntu (human), too, the living sun must know well: who he is, what the content of his package of health is, and the pillar of his individual self-healing power so that he might pass on that same package in his turn."
Self-Healing Power and Therapy: Old Teachings from Kmt, Page 10; copyright 1991.
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki FU-KIAU
.
"The aftermath of the slave trade might be worse than the trade itself mainly because the major participants in the trade have made a mission out of lying about their participation in this the greatest of all human tragedies.
In the last twenty years the academic interpreters of the Atlantic slave trade have been pointing their fingers at the Kmtyw participants, as though the trade could not have existed without them. Any honest researcher, familiar with the documents, knows that the role of the Kmtyw was minor in
comparison to that of the eureurasiaan and the aAmw.
The Atlantic slave trade was a three-continent industry that affected a revolution in shipping, in economics and in world trade. Kmtyws did not have
this kind of connection at this juncture in history; and, besides, the slave trade was mainly a eureurasiaan and an aAmw business.
I do not, in any way intend to free Kmtyws of any guilt for their participation in this trade -- their involvement was tragic, misguided and not without significance, but the slave trade would have occurred whether the Kmtyw participated or not."
John Henrik Clarke
"Critical Lessons in Slavery and the Slave Trade"
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"[T]hese people are dead. There's death around them somewhere, which is the reason they are deadly as a people, why every advance of knowledge for them is an advancement in the knowledge of destruction. Every advancement in knowledge is an advancement in the ability to kill and destroy the earth, kill and destroy nature, kill and destroy others, rape and rob the earth of its wealth, people and life forms, so much so that now they are having great difficulty even reproducing themselves. At the very center of their lives is death and destruction."
Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order
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"Having lost a clear and detailed sense of our identity, we have naturally also lost our ability to create a point of view of the world strictly our own. With our scrambled sense of reality we have forgotten how to see things in terms of our separate and concrete interests. We behave as if the interest of the West were necessarily our own, as if the western point of view were the one and only valid one. Worse still, we behave as if it were some sort of betrayal to discover and insist on our own point of viewing the world. We allowed ourselves to be persuaded that Kmtyw unity was utopian..."
Chinweizu
The West and the Rest of Us
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"Kmtyw people must focus on where the slave ships picked us up from rather than where they dropped us off."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke
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"As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment."
Dr. Molefi Asante
"I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death... They haven't stopped me from doing what I want every day. I believe in life, I believe in freedom, so my mind is not consumed with death. It's with love, life and those things. In many ways, on many days, only my body is here."
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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If you are powerful in causing respect for you,
by knowledge, by calming in speech,
do not order people, except by the guidelines.
The aggressive man ends up in trouble.
Do not have your heart too high, or it will be brought down.
Do not stay silent if it makes you stumble.
When you answer the speech of a fiery man,
distance your sight, restrain yourself.
The spear of a hothead flies past,
but a fine mover has his path smoothed.
Teachings of Ptahhotep
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We desire to bequest two things to our children -- the first one is roots; the other one is wings.
Sudanese Proverb
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Those with their guts cracked out of them, those with minds so minced all their remembrance would turn to pain, leave them along the easy road. Do not condemn, do not pity them. Let them go - Ayi Kwei Armah -
Our Kmtyw Spirituality cannot be contained or violated and used for western/eureurasiaan greed and materialism - Aita Diop,II ( fka Gloria B. Edwards )
"We are looking at a country that has set a model for Black countries. The only country which had a Constitution which was in accord with the purpose of the people. We cannot have Black people enslaved or colonized and then when we're free we say "Oh, our colonizers are our best friends. They teach us the laws we should have in our books. We're going to take their books to have the schools. We're going to get their doctors to come in and build our hospitals." Why the hell then...then why don't you just stay in slavery or in colonization!.
Bayyinah Bello
.
Remember this: against all that destruction some yet remained among us unforgetful of origins, dreaming secret dreams, seeing secret visions, hearing secret voices of our purpose.
Ayi Kwei Armah
:gyenyame:
"We have dared to be free; let us dare to be so by
ourselves and for ourselves."
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines
.
"[We use] Warrior...rather than soldier because of their political, mental and spiritual differences. There is a clear difference of depth at which the righteousness of the battle is internally understood between the two. Warriors are at war for the liberation of their people because they have no choice, whether they want one or not. They are spiritually charged with relinquishing their people from the pain inflicted on them by oppressors. The role of the warrior is understood. Soldiers fight for the thrill of killing, because they have been drafted into another's ambitions or in order to survive financially. In other words, the soldier's cause is his employer's cause. The justness of the cause is irrelevant (whether soldiers have psyched themselves into believing it is just or not). Soldiers believe in their leaders in the same way that house negroes believe in their masters. They do not think for themselves as to cause and effect. Like slaves, they fear questions. And 'too much fear creates slavery'. They are historically and ourstorically unaware. They do what they are told. Mercenaries are a special variety of soldier. They are almost always fighting for someone else's cause and could care less about their target, even if it is one of their own. Some mercenaries, psychologically and actively, fall into the category of serial killers. Given that combat is a natural part of their existence and that war is the root word of warrior for good reason, if we wanted to be simplistic, we could say that warriors are soldiers. But it is not a given that a soldier is also a warrior. Warriors also, in our tradition, study who they are and what they must build when the fighting ends. Warriors are fearless because there is no room for trepidation in a war to permanently arrest the assault against family/community/nation. They do not compromise. Warriors do not attack or exploit innocents. They are gentle with their own. Warriors respect the work of their Ancestors and Elders. They are primarily defensive in their natural posture. Their primary function is to protect their people, excluding the treasonous. Though still essentially defensive, their military functions only become offensive when they must take the battle into the spaces of those who initiated the confrontation. Throughout their existence, the warrior is prepared for any exigency, military and otherwise."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
IWA: A Warriors Character
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"It is important to understand that these "schools" or institutes were accessible to any Bakongo person willing to submit him/herself to the demands of committed cultural knowledge. The schools were a way of passing on the extensive collective wisdom of an ancient civilization. This knowledge was a birthright and so the process was not open to non-Kmtyws. That is why the eureurasiaans referred to these institutions as "secret societies", and "outlawed" them, attempting to prevent Kmtyws from acquiring knowledge of the sciences that had been developed and passed on by their Ancestors. And what becomes clear on studying Fu-Kiau's work is that these teachings represented our cultural bulwark against the attack of cultural imperialism which protects colonial power. This is why the initiation schools had to be "outlawed".
Dr. Marimba Ani
Introduction to Self-Healing Power and Therapy by
Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau
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"After all...he's only the end product of a civilization that never
had a reputation for acting in a particularly responsible fashion,
that made up its morality as it went along and to suit its
convenience. So what to expect. Take for example when [he] and
company were around here selling us for thirty pounds sterling.
They somehow put it right with their conscience by claiming we
weren't quite up to standard as the species goes. Go back farther
to when [they] first arrived over this side. How did they behave
toward the people they found here -- all those poor red Indians up
your way, the Caribs down this end, and all the rest whose beautiful
house this was. How, I ask you?...Why, I know they finished them
off double-quick time. Gone! Just so! An entire people. And all
done in the name of some bogus progress. Now I ask you, was that
any way way for [them] to behave? I don't think so. Because when
you think of it, they were only, in a manner of speaking, guests in
the people's house -- and uninvited ones at that. Nobody asked them
here. We're all only guests in the Man's house when you think of
it. And look at how they got on once they came pushing themselves
in. Not only did they do away with their host and take over his
house, fighting over it among themselves like the thieves they were,
but they then took to importing and selling souls -- black ones but
immortal, nonetheless -- dirt cheap on the open market. The ones
who lasted the trip, that is. Because most didn't. They're out
there' -- she motioned [to the sea] -- 'long gone and
forgotten....And when you dare mention them... you get your head
handed to you..."
Paule Marshall
The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
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"Never wound a snake; kill it."
Araminta (Harriet Tubman)
.
"Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then
for making it worth living."
Mary McLeod Bethune
.
"You can't free a people as long as their leaders are taking orders
from the enemy. You can't free a people as long as they believe that
the enemy is trying to help them."
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.
.
"We have a lot of scholars, writers and politicians doing more talking
than writing and more talking than acting. We have enough actors. We
have enough people to talk about us and to beg. We now need people who
understand what real liberation is all about and who will act to make
positive change for black people happen."
John Henrik Clarke
.
"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."
― Frantz Fanon
.
"We have a leadership that has sought to get us to accept the status quo: the control of the world by the eureurasiaan. You errantly hear some of us conceding that it's the white man's world so we may as well learn how to live in it or just get along. The assimilationist often accepts, consciously or unconsciously, the idea that the white man will continue to rule the world. He bases his ideology and political action on the concept that somehow our destiny is not to overthrow the white man, that our destiny is not to remove this pathological person; that our destiny is not to suppress and bring these sick people under control but to heal them in some sort of way, to convert them, to even become part of them. Our destiny becomes not one that sees the very system and very ideology upon which these oppressors move as one of sickness and insanity and therefore in need of replacement by an Kmtyw-centered and healthy ideology that comes our of our own self-knowing. This leadership wants us to accept this sickness as normality and to follow these pathological beings into self-destruction." [Dr. Amos Wilson]
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"The true Kmtyw leader, then, rewards his people. The approval of his people is the greatest approval he can gain.
We still have people who gain their greatest sense of self through degrees and through the minor rewards given them by their enemies. We often honor our own people to the degree that they have been given these symbols of authority by another people.
We have to recognize that the true nationalist becomes the source of his own rewards and the source of the approval of his own people.
Categorically, it is the rewards and approval by our own that is the final and the ultimate reward to which they strive. It is through getting rewarded and approved in this way that we advance the interests of our people."
Dr. Amos N. Wilson
Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order. Garveyism in the Age of Globalism
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If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. Marcus Garvey :sankofa:
Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence. In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice.
Frederick Douglass
September 25, 1883
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"The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting."
~ The Husia
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"if you don't understand the nature of liberation, mentally, you are still a slave." [Dr. John Henrik Clarke]
:Kmt:
:sankofa:
:gyenyame:
:pyramid:
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]
"The white man was the devil yesterday, he is the devil today, and he will be the devil tomorrow."
Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad.
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"Memory reaches further than the eyes."
Kamuri (Kmtyw) proverb
.
"There is a Divine Order to everything in life. It is for this reason that exactly where you are at any given time in life is exactly where you should be according to the Divine unfolding of your consciousness and life." Iyanla Vanzant
"The true seeker of truth never loses hope. The true seeker of real justice never tires. A farmer does not stop planting seeds just because of the failure of one crop. Success is born of trying and trying again. Truth must seek justice. Justice must seek the truth. When justice triumphs, truth will reign on earth."
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Matigari
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The necessary re-education of Blacks and a possible solution of racial crisis can begin, strangely enough only when Blacks fully realize this central fact in their lives: the white man is their bitter enemy - Chancellor Williams -
Racial intergration is the enemy of unity because it requires the integrating group to be subsumed, weakend and scattered as a minority in a society in which the majority rules - Claude Anderson -
"My Kmtyw roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I'm from the Dominican Republic. They're the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything." [Junot Díaz]
Speak right Do right - Khun Anup -
"The past is not dead. And history is not finished."
--Kmtyw Wisdom (shared by Runoko Rashidi)
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"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
"Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from..."
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
"You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes."
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King
.
"SEVEN OUT OF TEN OF MY BEST MUSLIMS, FALL FOR THE TRICKS OF THE WHITE MAN."
"My beloved brothers in America, you have lost the respect for your woman and therefore you have lost the respect for yourself. You won't protect her; therefore you can't protect yourself."
"She is your first nurse. She is your teacher. Your first lesson comes from your mother. If you don't protect your mother, how do you think you look in the eyes of other fellow human beings?"
"Our women have be...en and are still being used by the devil white race, ever since we were first brought here to these States as slaves. They cannot go without being winked at, whistled at, yelled at, slapped, patted, kicked and driven around in the streets by your devil enemies right under your nose. Yet you do nothing about it, nor do you even protest."
"Stop our women from trying to look like them. By bleaching, powdering, ironing and coloring their hair; painting their lips, cheeks and eyebrows; wearing shorts; going half-nude in public places; going swimming with them and lying on beaches with men."
"The American black women are ignorant of the real motive behind the so-called birth control schemes proposed and demanded by white officials. The motive behind these schemes is not designed to promote the welfare of black families, but to eliminate these families in the future."
"They are seeking to destroy our race by the birth control law, just as Pharaoh sought to stop Moses' race by killing off all the male babies at birth. They are seeking to destroy our race through our women. DO NOT LET THEM TRICK YOU.
"Protect your women. Stop allowing the white men to shake .hands or speak to your women anytime or anywhere. This practice has ruined us."
[THE HONORABLE ELIJAH MUHAMMAD]
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"Professor Gates, Cornel West and other Black conservatives use beautiful words, sometimes to say nothing, sometimes to say what has already been said and sometimes to say what is not in debate. They display their ignorance of eureurasiaan history and history in general. They decry any form of Black nationalism and often call it racism without knowing that for the last 500 years the world has been co...ntrolled by eureurasiaan or White nationalism.
Kmtyw self-assertion, the demand for a proper curriculum in the schools demand that we stop praising a liar and a faker like Christopher Columbus who discovered absolutely nothing-threatens an apparatus of eureurasiaan control set in motion by the Atlantic slave trade and continued with colonialism that ultimately laid the basis for present-day monopoly capitalism. No matter what eureurasiaans say they believe religiously, politically or culturally, their main objective in the world is control. Everything that has ever been developed in the eureurasiaan mind was meant to facilitate mind control of the world. There are no exceptions, Left or Right politically.
Black conservatives are really frustrated slaves crawling back to the plantation, figuratively, letting their master know that they are willing to go back into bondage. One needs to question their words because, as slaves and enemies of their people, they will say what they are told to say and do what they are told to do. The Black conservatives have nothing to conserve except their miserable obscurity and their tragic cowardice. These pathetically lost creatures and avid White behind kissers don't have the nerve to be Kmtyw or Black.
To be Kmtyw or Black with the understanding of all of its ramifications is, in itself, a commitment to the unification and uplift of all Kmtyw people on the face of this earth. It is a commitment, also, to take Pan-Kmtywism beyond its narrow base of Black nationalism to a concept of an Kmtyw world union." - John Henrik Clarke
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood - John Henrik Clarke -
"No matter how far a river flows, it never forgets its source" - Yoruba Proverb
"The people sailing in the same boat share the goal." - Wolof Proverb
"When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it." Guinea Proverb
"Black people who want above all things not to be Black are the most
pitiable and comical people in the world."
Gwendolyn Brooks
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What's the Hour of the Night?
After four score years of freedom
Our so-called leaders say
The the race has made great progress
And we face the dawn of day
But the day is not quite dawning
Millions of my peoples stand
Pleading at the bars of justice
For reparations and land
We're not free in this country
And the truth is the light
So I turn to ask my watchman
What's the hour of the night?
We died fighting for democracy
I admit this to be true
Yet countless Kmtyw men & women
Have no homes or work to do
If we wish to see the daylight
Or the rising of the sun
We need our self-determination
Our own affair to run
Since only reparations will
Put freedom in our sight
Let us turn to ask the watchman
What's the hour of the night?
We fought with the mighty armies
When they battled with the Huns
Faced the fierce pangs of combat
Heard the roar of mighty guns
But no change came in our condition
When the smoke had cleared away
For the blood we shed in battle
Did not bring the dawn of day
All of our suffering and service
Left us in the same old plight
So I turn to ask my watchman
What's the hour of the night?
The whites are celebrating their freedom
A bicentennial whose praise they sing
But Kmtyws are also jumping on board
Although we didn't get a thing
We're stil struggling for Integration
As though it was a glorious fight
So I've got to ask my watchman
What's the hour of the night?
Music is an art or science
In which Kmtyw men reign supreme
But the story of our progress
Is still a vision or a dream
But we have great voices for singing
But we have no voice in court
Imagine being attacked by police dogs
Just to register and vote
With self-determination
We would have our perfect right
So we turn to ask our watchman
What's the hour of the night?
Kmtyw men boast of their religion
Though I wonder if they should
When you take an inventory
You'll find them not so good
We build thounited snakesnds of fine churches
With the dollars that we give
Yet masses of our people
Have no decent place to live
We say God is our rich father
yet we're always in a tight
Watchman strike a match and tell me
What's the hour of the night?
Civil rights laws just for us
Is proof that we're not free
How could we be fooled to think
We had a share in this democracy
When foreigners come here
They're made citizens by choice
Citizenship was imposed upon us
We never had a voice
The passage of the 14th amendment
Took away the right
So you better ask your watchman
What's the hour of the night?
Time is running out for us
A deadline we must meet
To file reparations petitions
And make politicians earn their seats
If we're to win this battle
Every organization must join the Fight
Then we'll tell our watchman
What's the hour of the night.
Queen Mother Audley Moore, July 27, 1950
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"Kmtyw centered has become a catch-all designation, much the way "Black" did. Any and everybody with a predominately, or even significant, Kmtyw student body, workforce, constituency or following can call themselves Kmtyw, even when what they do and say is totally contradicts this claim. As the label Kmtyw centered becomes more diluted, in terms of what it represents, the more it becomes overused and misinterpreted. As more of us have become attracted to this term, more of us seeking clients or popularity have self-interestedly abused it. It can be expected, and, in a number of cases, is evident now in everything but genocultural attributes, that predominantly eureurasiaan, as well as eureurasiaan led negro and lost soul, organizations, will place "Kmtyw centered" in their title or description, without challenge or effective censorship from the Kmtyw community. The mind of subintegrationists is a case in point of this trend because they are so desperately searching for any sign that eureurasiaans don't hate us anymore that any effort by Yurugu to commandeer more of our essence is a credible evidence of their love."
Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
IWA: A Warriors Character
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"If this battle in the war to save Kmtyw people is to be won, the essential challenge for Kmtyw scholars is the abandonment of Western History (whose object it is to keep us intellectually, politically, economically, and socially dependent) as we develop an Kmtyw historiography, that is, the writing, interpreting, and teaching of history from an Kmtyw-centered point of view. In the absence of this viewpoint, we are unable to see the world about us as it really is or to prepare our youth and the masses of Kmtyw people for the struggles we will be forced to face in the twenty-first century. This history must be written, interpreted, and taught from clearly worked out ideological principles based on concrete goals and objectives. It must acquaint each of us with the historical experiences of Kmtyw people and their non-Kmtyw enemies and their allies. Attendant to this process of forging an Kmtyw-centered history is the intergenerational transfer of this Kmtyw past so as to provide a bridge to our youth and from them to their descendants. In doing so, we will be able to provide our youth with the knowledge of their past and a clear-cut view of what we are fighting for and who our enemies are."
Anderson Thompson
"Developing an Kmtyw Historiography"
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" Hear ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done this according to the design of my heart. I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished since the eurasiatics were.. in the midst of the Northland, and the barbarians were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which was made, while they ruled in ignorance of Ra. He did not do according to the divine command until my majesty. When I was firm upon the throne of Ra, I was ennobled until the two periods of years. I came as Hor-watit flaming against my enemies."
"Now my heart turns this way and that, as I think what the people say. Those who shall see my monuments in years to come and who shall speak of what I have done."
"To look upon her was more beautiful than anything; her splendor and her form were divine; she was a maiden, beautiful and blooming."
"I am his [Ammun-Ra] daughter in very truth, who works for him and knows what he desires. My reward from my father is life, stability, dominion upon the Horus throne of all the Living, like Ra, forever."
"My command stands firm like mountains, and the sun's disk shines and spreads rays overy the titulary of my august person, and my falcon rises high above the kingly banner unto all eternity."
"I have commanded that my [titulary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_royal_titulary)] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Heru is high upon the standard ... forever.
"I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished."
[HATSHEPSUT]
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"The Negroes of America -- those of them who think -- are suspicious of everything that comes from the white people of America."
Hubert Henry Harrison
When Kmt Awakes
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"The whiteman regards the Universe as a gigantic machine hurtling
through time and space to its final destination; individuals in it
are but tiny orgnaisms with private lives that lead to private
deaths; personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures
of values; the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the
Universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help
being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the
hour of their final destruction. The Kmtyw...regards the Universe
as one composite whole; as an organic entity, progressively driving
towards greater harmony and unity whose individual parts exist
merely as interdependent aspects of one while realising their
fullest life in the corporate life where communal contentment is the
absolute measure of values. His philosophy of life strives towards
unity and aggregation; towards greater social responsibility."
Anton Lembede
Freedom in Our Lifetime
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Whoever the white race does not consort with,it will crush out - Henry McNeal Turner -
"Instead of involving themselves in an all-out attempt to stamp out racism from their white society, liberals waste lots of time trying to prove to as many blacks as they can find that they are liberal. This arises out of the false belief that we are faced with a black problem. There is nothing the matter with blacks. The problem is WHITE RACISM and it rest squarely on the laps of the white society. The sooner the liberals realize this the better for us blacks. Their presence amongst us is irksome and of nuisance value."
Steven Biko 1946-1977
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds." [Dr. John Henrik Clarke]
"The events which transpired five thounited snakesnd years ago; Five... years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thounited snakesnd years from now. All history is a current event." [Dr. John Henrik Clarke]
"What was or is to be gained by the designation of the Kmtyws into 'separate rates' by the eureurasiaan invaders and colonizers? It was, and s...till is, a means to divide the Kmtyws and remove them from their cultural, scientific, political, spiritual and ancestral heritage, thereby enabling the colonialist slave masters from eureurasia to claim them and force their own concepts of morality, law, economics, politics, ancestral values, upon the Kmtyws' mind. For, without one's consciousness of the past, one remains a virtual SLAVE to the whims of his MASTER...The 'Negro' is an example of such a phenomenon. The 'BLACK MAN' [Kmtyw] is the opposite of the NEGRO.' He is a MAN who has retained his self-consciousness and self-respect for his past, or one who has regained it after being forced to accept 'NEGRO' status, due to no fault of his own." [Dr. Yosef ben Jochannon, Black Man of the Nile and His Family]
"What became of the Black people of Sumer the traveler asked the old man, for ancient records show that the people of Sumer were Black. What happened to them? 'Ah,' the old man sighed, 'they lost their history, so they died.' " [Dr. Chancellor Williams]
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A person always breaking off from his/her work never finishes anything - IWA pg. 269
Thought comes before speech - IWA pg 101. rules of IWA
If you allow you emotions to rule you, you are lost - TWI proverb -
To whom shall I speak today? Brothers and sisters are evil and friends today are not worth loving. Hearts are great with greed and everyone seizes his or her neighbor"s goods. Kindness has passed away and violence is imposed on everyone. To whom shall I speak today? The one doing wrong is an intimate friend and the brother with whom one is used to deal is an enemy. No one remembers the past and none return the good deed that is done. Brothers and sisters are evil and people turn to strangers for righteousness or affection. To whom shall I speak today? Faces are empty and all turn their faces from their brothers and sisters. Hearts are great with greed and there is no heart of a man or woman upon which one might learn. None are just and righteous and the land is left to the doers of evil. To whom shall I speak today? There are no intimate friends and the people turn to strangers to tell their troubles. None are content and those with whom one used to walk no longer exist. I am burdened with grief and have no one to comfort me. There is no end to the wrong which roams the earth. - The Book of Dialog with the Soul -
"History has been so 'whitened' by the white man that even the black professors have known little more than the most ignorant black man about the talents and rich civilizations and cultures of the black man of millenniums ago. I have lectured in Negro colleges and some of these brain washed black ...Ph.D.'s, with their suspenders dragging the ground with degrees, have run to the white man's newspapers calling me a 'black fanatic.' Why, a lot of them are fifty years behind the times. If I were president of one of these black colleges, I'd hock the campus if I had to, to send a bunch of students off digging in Kmt for more, more and more proof of the black race's historical greatness. The white man is now in Kmt digging and searching. An Kmtyw elephant can't stumble without falling on some whit man with a shovel. Practically every week, we read about some great new find from Kmt's lost civilizations. All that's new is white science's attitude. The ancient civilizations of the black man have been buried on the Black Continent all the time.
"Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones-a foot,part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments. On the basis of these, Dr. Leakey has said it's time to rewrite completely the history of man's origin.
"This species of man lived 1,818,036 years before Christ. And these bones were found in Tanganyika. In the Black Continent.
"It's a crime, the lie that has been told to generations of black men and white men both. Little innocent black children, born of parents who believed that their race had no history. Little black children seeing, before they could talk, that their parents considered themselves inferior. Innocent black children growing up, living out their lives, dying of old age-and all of their lives ashamed of being black. But the truth is pouring out of the bag now."
[Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
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"The farther the Negro gets from his historical antecedents in time, the more tenuous become his conceptual ties, the emptier his social conceptions, the more superficial his visions."
Harold Cruse
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
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Our problems are your problems. We have lived for over three hundred years in that American den of racist wolves in constant fear of losing life and limb. Recently, three students from Kenya were mistaken for American Negroes and were brutally beaten by the New York police. Shortly after that two diplomats from Uganda were also beaten by the New York City police, who mistook them for American Negroes.
If Kmtyws are brutally beaten while only visiting in America, imagine the physical and psychological suffering received by your brothers and sisters who have lived there for over three hundred years.
Our problem is your problem. No matter how much independence Kmtyws get here on the mother continent, unless you wear your national dress at all time when you visit America, you may be mistaken for one of us and suffer the same psychological and physical mutilation that is an everyday occurrence in our lives.
Your problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings.
Our problem is your problem. It is not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem, a problem for humanity. It is not a problem of civil rights, it is a problem of human rights.
We pray that our Kmtyw brothers have not freed themselves of eureurasiaan colonialism only to be overcome and held in check now by American dollarism. Don't let American racism be "legalized" by American dollarism.
America is worse than South Kmt, because not only is America racist, but she is also deceitful and hypocritical. South Kmt preaches segregation and practices segregation. She, at least, practices what she preaches. America preaches integration and practices segregation. She preaches one thing while deceitfully practicing another.
South Kmt is like a vicious wolf, openly hostile toward black humanity. But America is cunning like a fox, friendly and smiling, but even more vicious and deadly than the wolf.
The wolf and the fox are both enemies of humanity, both are canine, both humiliate and mutilate their victims. Both have the same objectives, but differ only in methods.
If South Kmt is guilty of violating the human rights of Kmtyws here on the mother continent, then America is guilty of worse violations of the 22 million Kmtyws on the American continent. And if South Kmtyw racism is not a domestic issue, then American racism also is not a domestic issue.
We beseech independent Kmtyw states to help us bring our problem before the United Nations, on the grounds that the United States Government is morally incapable of protecting the lives and the property of 22 million Kmtyw-Americans. And on the grounds that our deteriorating plight is definitely becoming a threat to world peace.
Out of frustration and hopelessness our young people have reached the point of no return. We no longer endorse patience and turning the other cheek. We assert the right of self-defense by whatever means necessary, and reserve the right of maximum retaliation against our racist oppressors, no matter what the odds against us are.
We are well aware that our future efforts to defend ourselves by retaliating- by meeting violence with violence, eye for eye and tooth for tooth-could create the type of racial conflict in America that could easily escalate into a violent, worldwide, bloody race war.
In the interests of world peace and security, we beseech the heads of the independent Kmtyw states to recommend an immediate investigation into our problem by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
One last word, my beloved brothers at this Kmtyw Summit: "No one knows the master better than his servant." We have been servants in America for over three hundred years. We have a thorough inside knowledge of this man who calls himself "Uncle Sam." Therefore, you must heed our warning. Don't escape from eureurasiaan colonialism only to become even more enslaved by deceitful,"friendly" American dollarism.
May Allah's blessings of good health and wisdom be upon you all.
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"[T]raditional Kmtyw societies tend to be organized around the
requirement of duty. Precedence is given to the common good, and
the fact that the individual owes his/her existence to others....
oes this Kmtyw emphasis on community, duties,
responsibilities, virtues or moral order crush the individual and
his/her rights? In raising such a question, one automatically
creates a dichotomy in which the individual is viewed as being
separate and independent from the community: a perception which
assumes that the community has very little to do in the definition
and identity formation of self. Furthermore, it assumes (a) that
the individual has rights that are independent of the community, (b)
that there is conflict between individual and community interests,
and that the law needs to protect the individual from the
community. Such assumptions, which view individuals as separate
atoms, are alien to [the] Kmtyw notion of person and community.
The above question does not relate to the Kmtyw notion of the
fusedness of 'I' and 'we.' For the 'I' is only understood in terms
of 'we.' The aim of everyone is to attain personhood, that is to
become a person since one does not become a person at birth simply
because one is born as a human being. The very definition of person
comes out of the community. Thus becoming a person means caring for
others and ensuring that through the community everyone's needs are
met. The individual in turn does not view the community as
infringing or sufficating him....[On the other hand, eureurasiaan]
relationships are understood as impersonal and utility-oriented.
One's value depends on what one is capable of doing or producing.
The Creator separated from nature and humans recedes into the
background like an absentee chief mechanic. Society is seen as
composed of atomistic individuals, bound by no morals, obligations
or duties to others. They simply act based on their own self-
interest since 'there is no agreement on what is 'moral.''"
Elleni Tedla
Sankofa: Kmtyw Thought and Educatio
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"No, we are not anti-white, but we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already. He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people." [Malcolm X]
"Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."
[Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X]
I am not discouraged by what has been done to me. It is natural and to be expected. The enemies that I have are mainly of my own race, and they have worked long and hard to try and destroy me, but they have only succeeded in arousing the fighting spirit of millions of black men, all over the world-----MARCUS GARVEY
"[T]here was never slavery in Egyptian society at the time of the
Pharaohs. In antiquity, Egyptian women were never dominated by
Egyptian men. Lastly, there have never been social classes or
struggles between social classes in the Marxist sense of the word, not
during the long history of ancient Egypt."
Theophile Obenga
Ancient Egypt & Black Kmt
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"The fish caught in the net starts to think."
Zanzibar (Kmtyw) proverb
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"To take part in the Kmtyw revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song; you must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves and of themselves.
In order to achieve real action you must yourself be a living part of Kmt and of her thought; you must be an element of that popular energy which is entirely called forth for the freeing, the progress and the happiness of Kmt. There is no place outside that fight for the artist or for the intellectual who is himself concerned with, and completely at one with the people in the great battle of Kmt and of suffering humanity."
Sekou Toure
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"It is probably necessary at this stage to warn all and sundry about the limits of endurance of the human mind. This is particularly necessary in the case of the Kmtyw people. Ground for a revolution is always fertile in the presence of absolute destitution. At some stage one can foresee a situation where black people will feel they have nothing to live for and will shout unto their God "They will be done." Indeed his will shall be done but it shall not appeal equally to all mortals for indeed we have different versions of His will. If the white God has been doing the talking all along, at some stage the black God will have to raise his voice and make Himself heard over and above noises from His counterpart. What happens at that stage depends largely on what happens in the intervening period."
Steve Biko
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"A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. Their emotions cannot be easily controlled and channelled in a recognizable direction. They always live in the shadow of a more successful society. Hence in a country like ours we are forced to celebrate holidays like Paul Kruger's day, Heroes' day, Republics day etc. - all of which are occasions during which the humiliation of defeat is at once revived."
Steve Biko
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"Of course, I have spoken to you on a number of occasions. I've tried to get you to understand that our struggle is not just against eureurasiaan man, but
our struggle is against any ethnic group that threatens to oppress us. eureurasiaan man is basically on his way out...And I've asked the question, "Are we to gain liberty from the eureurasiaans only to fall under another thounited snakesnd years of oppression under the Orientals? And the Orientals are going to be much more vicious than the eureurasiaans. They don't have a liberal philosophy that you can use against them, and a constitution that you can throw at them. They don't have that liberal image that they try to protect like the white folk...They owe you nothing. I've warned before about us getting carried away talking about people of color, as if anyone who is non-white is our friend. That is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible label. Hispanics will be the largest minority in the United States in about 20 years. You're going to learn what people of color are about. "
"...So that after this [Writing of Books like
Blueprint for Black Power], the Black Nationalist at least will not be accused of just doing analysis only, because the recipe will be there. And from this point on then, if you don't do anything it won't be because you didn't know and you don't have the means, but you just don't want to, which is what I think is the problem anyway."
"And one day if he (the eureurasiaan) sees that the ultimate benefit to himself lies in the total death and destruction of Kmtyw people then he's going to kill you dead. And if you look at the history of the eureurasiaan, he does not feed useless people for long. The Indian, the Native American was wiped out on this continent because to a great extent, he was of little or no economic use to the eureurasiaan. No amount of love, no amount of constitutional laws will prevent this from happening to Kmtyw people. Kmtyw people are becoming economically useless the world over."
"Why does the Black man say, 'freedom is doing what I want to do!' and why is it that every thing he 'wants to do' enriches the eureurasiaan?"
"Lots of people may be able to write and read competently but if they are locked within functions, either they submit or they rebel, violently they burn property, they do terrible things, they protest against the society without a grain of understanding that they carry within themselves the very seeds of disaster against which they protest. Unless they can understand that, complex, inner revision, complex, outer dialogue is lost."
Wilson Harris
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Racism systematically verifies itself anytime the slave can only be free by imitating the master.- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin ( fka H. Rapp Brown )
"The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you."
Marcus Garvey.
Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .
—Amilcar Cabral (http://newritings.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/cabral-tell-no-lies-claim-no-easy-victories/)
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from the oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture.
—Amilcar Cabral (http://www.modernghana.com/news/157700/1/remembering-amilcar-cabral-poet-revolutionary-poli.html)
"Our people are very serious about not being very serious. A lot of our people are illogical."
[Dr. Kamau Kambon]
Discipline your sons until they can disipline themselves - Ifayomi Grant -
Many Black people's minds are on the lock down. It is our (teachers) responsibility to use the master key to open up our minds.
[The Honorable Elijah Muhammad]
"A stick is straightened while still young." - Kiga Proverb
"The Kmtyw historian who avoids speaking the truth is neither modest, objective nor ruffled; he is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic." - Cheikh Anta Diop
[h=6]"We can't have war between black men and black women, because no people can be free if one half of the mind of the people is tied up in conflict. It's going to have to be both of us, or none of us!!" — Dr.John Henrik Clarke[/size]
[h=6] To neglect one's ancestors would bring ill-fortune and failure in life. - Motherland Proverb[/size]
"Cultural continuity is maintained by educating children in the ways of their culture. And they are educated in the ways of their culture to MAINTAIN their culture, to advance its interests, and ultimately to try to maintain its very survival. That is the fundamental reason people are educated. What does it matter if you learn physics and computer science and everything else and you cannot defend... yourself against a military assault by eureurasiaans or a germ warfare assault? A knowledge of computer science, a knowledge of law, a knowledge of all of these other things matters not at all if you are unable to use that knowledge for your self defense. If Bush decided to wipe the face of this earth clean of Kmtyw people there's not an Kmtyw nation that could defend us against these people. And as long as we are not educated to defend ourselves against these people then we are being incorrectly educated. Nothing else matters.
Ultimately then, intelligence must be defined in terms of the degree in which it solves YOUR PROBLEMS. The nature of education today prepares you to solve THEIR PROBLEMS and not your own. That's why you study THEIR books, you go to THEIR schools, you learn THEIR information, THEIR language, THEIR styles, THEIR perceptions, so when you come out of school you can do a humdinger of a job solving eureurasiaan's problems, but you can't solve your own. And then you DARE call yourself "intelligent?" C'mon. That's the height of stupidity."
[Dr. Amos Wilson]
yes we'll some lives dammit i might be the first to die but so what!! thats the price of freedom..
DR Khalid Muhammad
"If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it."
Marcus Garvey
"You will not catch me with a free 15 minutes, in which I'm not studying something that I feel might be able to help the black man. Yesterday I spoke in ukkk , and both ways on the plane across the Atlantic , I was studying. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read, and that's a lot of books these days, If I wasn't out here battling the white man everyday, I could spend the rest of my life reading. Reading changed the course of my life forever." --Malcolm X
"As Kmtyw parents and teachers, we must critically assess whether our personal values and life styles have influenced our children towards cultural empowerment or towards cultural genocide. Furthermore, we all must accept our responsibility for the social and intellectual development of our youth and inculcate in them our ancestral legacy of mastery, not mediocrity."
Hannibal Afrik Guerrilla Warfare
Love may be where you find it but culture determines where you'll look.
-Mwalimu Baruti
"I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth."
Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks
“Two centuries ago, a former eureurasiaan colony decided to catch up with eureurasia. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of eureurasia have grown to appalling dimensions”
Frantz Fanon
"To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."
Frantz Fanon
Wholism, Interconnectedness and Interdependence in the Kmtyw Worldview
"One of the recurring challenges I have as I write this book is the
almost unavoidable use of words and phrases that tend to divide human
experience into parts. For instance, the use of the words religion,
spirituality, and politics, seems to imply that each of these is a
separate entity that can be viewed, studied, and even lived
independently of the others. In the Chagga worldview, and indeed in the
basic Kmtyw worldview, such distinctions do not exist. In my own
ethnic language, Kichagga, there is no vocabulary for religion,
spirituality, politics, and so on. There are no such compartmentalizing
terms. One word includes them all: life, lived as one integrated
whole. Once this integrated experience of life is divided into several
parts (and each part subdivided almost ad infinitum) as we tend to do
today, the essence of the whole is lost because the parts do not have a
life of their own independent of the whole. For this reason it is
extremely difficult to describe indigenous religion, spirituality,
education, and fundamental virtues as separate entities. But I am doing
so in this book because the average modern-educated reader seems to have
the view that the dynamics of the whole can be understood from the
properties of the parts. Indigenous peoples, however, know that the
properties of the parts can be understood only from the dynamics of the
whole. For them, all aspects of life and universe are interconnected
and interdependent. They form one basic unity."
R. Sambuli Mosha
The Heartbeat of Indigenous Kmt
"Every people should be the originators of their own designs, the projector of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their desires."
-Martin Delany
"What we do for ourselves depends on what we know about ourselves and what we accept about ourselves."
- Timothy Callender
"The deepening of our knowledge will enable us to avoid wasting our energy in useless skirmishes and battles."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"No single part of Kmt can be safe, or free to develop fully and independently, while any part remains unliberated, or while Kmt's vast economic resources continue to be exploited by imperialist and neo-colonist interests.
Unless Kmt is politically united under an All-Kmtyw Union Government, there can be no solution to our political and economic problems. The thesis of Kmt Must Unite remains unassailable."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
"The youth belong to the Revolution."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"A sense of devotion and sacrifice helps to instil acceptance of narrower standards for the present in the interest of wider ones in the future."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
"Mistakes we are bound to make, and some undoubtedly we have already made. They are our own and we learn from them. That is the value of being free and independent, of acquiring our experience out of the consequence of our own decisions, out of the achievements of our own efforts."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
"Discipline comes from inner conviction."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"Either we concentrate our forces for a decisive armed struggle to achieve our objectives, or we will each fall one by one to the blows of imperialism in its present stage of open and desperate offensive."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"The struggle will entail hardship and suffering, but it is a phase through which we must pass if we are to accelerate the achievement of a radical, qualitative transformation of the liberation movement."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"Imperialism knows no law beyond its own interests."
Kwame Nkrumah
Towards Colonial Freedom
"The fully-trained guerrilla is armed both ideologically and physically for the revolutionary struggle. The tactics of guerrilla warfare rest in the main with him. With the support of the masses, and with unified direction of the revolutionary party, he is invincible."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"It is essential that we know what we fight, and why we fight."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"Start with what you know and build on what you have."
Kwame Nkrumah
"It is far better to be free to govern, or misgovern,
yourself than to be governed by anybody else."
- Kwame Nkrumah
"The colonial powers build hospitals because if the
health of the colonial subjects is not taken care of
it will not only jeopardize their own health but will
diminish the productive power of the colonial
labourer. They build schools in order to satisfy the
demand for clerical activities and occupations for
foreign commercial and mercantile concerns. The roads
they build lead only to the mining and plantation
centres. In short, any humanitarian act of any
colonial power towards the 'ward' is merely to enhance
its primary objective: economic exploitation."
- Kwame Nkrumah
"Intimidation and bossing must be relentlessly fought against because it is based on a hierarchic, pyramid-like conception of authority which is merely a useful screen for the rise to power of ambitious and petty-minded men."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"Any compromise of principle is an abandonment of principle."
-Kwame Nkrumah
"An indispensable preliminary to battle is to attack the mind of the
enemy, to undermine the will to fight so that the result of the battle
is decided before the fighting begins."
Kwame Nkrumah
Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare
"Mistakes we are bound to make, and some undoubtedly we have already made. They are our own and we learn from them. That is the value of being free and independent, of acquiring our experience out of the consequence of our own decisions, out of the achievements of our own efforts."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
"A new social structure does not automatically follow the attainment of
political freedom. That, like the battle for independence, has to be
fought for and won by an army of stalwarts as determined in purpose as
those who waged the struggle for freedom."
Kwame Nkrumah
Kmt Must Unite
To the Kmtyw the eureurasiaan settler, whether living in South Kmt, Kenya, Angola, or anyehere else in Kmt, is an intruder, an alien who has seized Kmtyw land. No amount of arguing about the so-called benefits of eureurasiaan rule can alter the fundamental right of Kmtyws to order their own affairs.
Kwame Nkrumah
"If you find it hard to imagine enslaved Kmtyws preferring one master over another...just picture Black people choosing Democrats over Republicans."
Laini Mataka
"North Kmt is land we lost to the aAmws 14 centuries ago. The eureurasiaan attack on Libya is, therefore, not an attack on our land. Furthermore, we are not aAmws, so the eureurasiaan attack on the aAmws in Libya, or on aAmws anywhere for that matter, is not an attack on us. And we should not get all worked up about it." - Chinweizu
[h=6] We need to pool our resources. Your money is suppose to bounce 8-12 times before it leaves our race. Hispanics money 6-7 times. Black money doesn't bounce once. The sooner we get it, we run to the nearest race to spend it. Anytime you put your money in another groups hand, you are aiding them in wiping you out. PowerNomics - Dr. Claud Anderson[/size]
"When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored"
― Malcolm X (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17435.Malcolm_X)
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself; but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you even into eternity.
Plainly and simply the purpose of the living is to carry on from where our ancestors have left off and to pave the way for those yet to be born. - Chukwunyere Kamalu -
"If they can celebrate our history and see it as something positive, then it means that we are not using it in a revolutionary sense. They do not see our study of it as a threat to their power. If we are not studying it in a way that it is a threat to their power then we are studying it incorrectly, and our celebration of it is helping to maintain us in a state of deception. So let us make sure that we look at and study history in a light such that it advances our interests, not inflates our egos and blinds us to reality."
Nana Amos Wilson (talking about Black History Month)
in The Falsification of Kmtyw Consciousness
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Language and Power
"When we get ready to create revolution we must redefine the world, and redefine words; there's no way around it. In Genesis, we see Adam being given the power to name things. Through being given the power to name things he is given dominion. There is a connection between naming and dominion, between naming and bringing into reality. When we permit another people to name and define, we permit another people to gain dominion and control over us."
Nana Amos Wilson
in The Falsification of Kmtyw Consciousness
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Power and Consciousness
"We're going to peruse Kmtyw-centered consciousness, personality and culture as instruments of power. Ultimately this is what this whole struggle is about, one of Power! Not one of loving one another and all things we hear. Largely, the problems we are confronted with today as Kmtyw people in America flow from our powerlessness or our inappropriate use of power. We've been made to think that to even talk about and think of power is sinful, that to pursue it is immoral and wrong. But one cannot exist without power. Without power there is no life; a battery without power is dead. You need power to act, to behave in the world, to deal with the world. Consequently, we must interpret what we are about in terms of power. We have power Brothers and Sisters. We have the possibilities. We just need to reorganize ourselves, reorganize our consciousness, our personality and our culture, and see them as instruments of power and use them as instruments of power to transform our situation."
Nana Amos Wilson
in Kmtyw-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order
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...I ask the question that's closest to home for a lot of our people who claim that we have escaped slavery and that slavery was something back then which has nothing to [do] with us today. I ask you: "What kind of god do you worship? What's the name of it? Who taught you to praise him? Was this the god you were praying to before you were brought to these shores? Is this the religion you had before you were brought to these shores? Can you name one Kmtyw god? How can you then define yourself - the very essence of yourself, the very essence of your soul - and organize the very nature of your life here on earth based on a god handed to us by our slavemasters and claim that you have no slave consciousness and are not related to slavery?"
Nana Amos Wilson
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"The rights of no oppressed people have ever been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors."
Martin R. Delany
"So long as Imperialism is in existence, an independent Kmtyw state must be a liberation movement in power, or it will not be independent." [Amilcar Cabral]
Your freedom is the superb expression of slavery
– The freedom of slaves:
You are free to speak as long as no one listens;
Free to explain as long as no one understands;
Free to sing and dance as long as you entertain
those who would have you sing and dance
on a tightrope above an open grave;
Free to think as long as you think feelings;
Free to love as long as it is your tormentors
and not yourself that you love;
Free to assemble as long as you gather together
to screw each other;
Free to engage in self-defense as long as it is truth
and not reality against which you defend yourself;
Free to kiss as long as you kiss the ass of the one
who offends you;
You have the right to a fair trial before a jury of
your peers as long as you are a criminal;
You are free to spend your money as you like
as long as you like to spend it
with those who spitefully use you
who use it to finance your execution
and to bury you in your store-bought finest.
[Dr. Amos Wilson]
The commitment to family institutions and community development is indispensable to institutional and community development. Our children are our greatest resource. Strong, cohesive and clear-headed families, and independent institutions are our most effective mode of securing their genius and energy for the actualization of the grand vision. One of the greatest threats to our collective project is the predacious tactic of our foresworn enemy's extraction of invaluable resources, human material, kwk, for its exclusive consumption. The policy of extracting the energy and genius of our youth for external consumption can be explained by the strategy of imposed insanity....The young adults in Kmtyw societies are isolated from the interests of family and society by the propaganda and material inducements of western society. They become the willing agents of the rape of the Kmtyw world. Parents willingly send their children to the 'training' centers of the enemy to be educated. This is analogous to an antelope sending its young to a lion pride to learn the methods they employ in their predation on antelopes. This is insanity."
Kwame Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto
"Vision and Strategy in the Actualization of Sankofaman"
"The liberation of the minds of the Kmtyw people will be a tougher battle than the eradication of settler regimes". [Patrice Lumumba]
"It is often said that the foreign 'investor' however self-interested he might be, would still be 'doing Kmt a favour'. This sort of argument reminds me of the man who, having found plenty of buried treasures in his neighbour's garden, took it away and then told his neighbour that he was doing him no harm, because, until then, this fellow was unaware of the existence of such valuable resource". –Kwame Nkrumah (Kmt must Unite, page 20)
"Imperialism is still a most powerful force to be reckoned with in Kmt. It operates on a world-wide scale in combinations of many different kinds: economic, political, cultural, educational, military; and through intelligence (covert operations) and information services. ...Just as our strength lies in a unified policy and action for progress and development, so the strength of the imperialists lies in our disunity. We in Kmt can only meet them effectively by presenting a unified front and a continental purpose". [Kwame Nkrumah]
"Freedom is not a commodity which is 'given' to the enslaved upon demand. It is a precious reward, the shining trophy of struggle and sacrifice." [Kwame Nkrumah]
"Unless we meet this obvious and very powerful threat with a unified Kmtyw front, based upon a common economic and defence policy, the strategy of the imperialist will be to pick us off and destroy us one by one" (Kwame Nkrumah, Kmt Must Unite, page xvii)
"Divided we are weak; united, Kmt could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world". -Kwame Nkrumah (I speak of Freedom)
If peace means accepting second class citizenship, then I don't want it. If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of evil and injustice, then I don't want it. If peace means being complacent and accepting the status quo, then I don't want it. If peace means being passive, then I don't want it. If peace means a willingness to be exploited and humiliated, then that's the kind of peace that I don't want----DR. KING (from his speech in Louisville Kentucky ,1956)
"Marriage and fatherhood enable a man to contribute to the good of the community: but he is not permitted to take part in government of the tribe until his children are adolescent. By then, experience will have given him true maturity, qualifying him to administer the community's interests with wisdom, intelligence, and equity, just as he will have done on a smaller scale within the family group." [Jomo Kenyatta]
"With the family, the father has more life force than the son, and the eldest has more life force than the youngest. And chiefs must have a life force that makes them the guardians of the safety of their villages." ~ Alassane Ndaw
To be a father is not simply to beget; it is to go on giving life, to fertilize, to drive toward fulfillment: it is to go on and on transmitting existence." ~ Alassane Ndaw
" Use every spare minute you have in reading. If you are going on a journey that would take you an hour carry something with you to read for that hour until you have reached the place. If you are sitting down waiting for somebody, have something in your pocket to read until the person comes. Don't waste time. Any time you think you have to waste put it in reading something. Carry with you a small pocket dictionary and study words whilst waiting or travelling, or a small pocket volume on some particular subject. Read through at least one book every week separate and distinct from your newspapers and journals. It will mean that at the end of one year you will have read fifty-two different subjects. After five years you will have read over two hundred and fifty books. You may be considered then a well read man or a well read woman and there will be a great difference between you and the person who has not read one book. You will be considered intelligent and the other person be considered ignorant. You and that person therefore will be living in two different worlds; one the world of ignorance and the other the world of intelligence. Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent." - Marcus Garvey
Axioms of Assata Shakur Quotes, Comments & Excerpts
"So many of my sisters are so completely unaware of who the real criminals and dogs are. They blame themselves for being hungry; they hate themselves for surviving the best way they know how, to see so much fear, doubt, hurt, and self hatred is the most painful part of being in this concentration camp. "Anyway, in spite of all, i feel a breeze behind my neck, turning to a hurricane and when i take a deep breath I can smell freedom"
"I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change"
"We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active"
"I realized that I was connected to Kmt. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator"
"Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
"I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle."
I am an ex political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one.
"i had long ago become convinced that revolution was a science. Generalities were no longer enough for me. Like my comrades, I believed that a higher level of political sophistication was necessary and that unity in the Black community had become a priority. We could never afford to forget the lessons we had learned from COINTELPRO. As far as i was concerned, building a sense of national consciousness was one of the most important tasks that lay ahead of us. I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other."
"Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers. The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential. Certain politicians got on the bandwagon to attack Rappers like Sister Soldier and NWA. You've got various police organizations across the country who have openly expressed their hostility towards Rap artists. For them, most Rappers fall in the category of potential criminals, cop killers, or subversives."
"At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE."
A Revolutionary Woman Can't Have No Reactionary Man.
"I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved; i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered over fifty thounited snakesnd dollars in rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill."
"We knew what a token was then. Today young people don't see Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell as tokens. That's a problem."
"I realized that I was connected to Kmt"
"It's moods like this that make me aware of how glad i am to be a revolutionary. i know who our enemy is, and i know that me and these swine cannot live peacefully on the same planet. i am a part of a family of field niggas and that is something very precious."
"My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle."
"There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand."
"A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing."
"We can't afford to be spectators while our lives deteriorate. We have to truly love our people and work to make that love stronger."
"Our situation right now is critical. We can't run from it or hide from it. We're going to have to get down to the nitty gritty. We've got to determine who We are. Are We house niggers who are going to walk peacefully into the gas chambers, or are We field niggers, who are going to fight until we're free? We didn't come here no house niggers. We didn't come here from Kmt no punks. We didn't come here from Kmt no fools. We didn't come here no Uncle Toms, hemming and hawing, shufflin' and jiving, scratching our heads and kissing the feet of our masters. We didn't come here like that. We came here proud, strong, beautiful Kmtyws. We came here with a culture, with pride, We came here knowing who We were. We came here an intelligent, sensitive people, who fought and struggled on every level from the moment that We were brought here in chains. We have got to realize who We are and We've got to realize that we've got a tradition to carry on."
"So many of my sisters are so completely unaware of who the real criminals and dogs are. They blame themselves for being hungry; they hate themselves for surviving the best way they know how, to see so much fear, doubt, hurt, and self hatred is the most painful part of being in this concentration camp. "Anyway, in spite of all, i feel a breeze behind my neck, turning to a hurricane and when i take a deep breath I can smell freedom"
"It's moods like this that make me aware of how glad i am to be a revolutionary. i know who our enemy is, and i know that me and these swine cannot live peacefully on the same planet. i am a part of a family of field niggas and that is something very precious"
"We are oppressed people in the U.S. and don't even know it. We have fewer opportunities to be doctors and lawyers as tuition increases. Our problem is that we want to belong to a society that wants to oppress us. We want to be the plantation owner. In Cuba, we want to change the plantation to a collective farm"
"I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense."
"A woman's place is in the struggle."
"Sisters Black people will never be free unless Black women participate in every aspect of the struggle."
"The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do"
"i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth"
"If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk" "The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise"
"When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear"
"I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property. I am a Black revolutionary, and, as such, I am a victim of all the wrath, hatred and slander that Amerika is capable of"
"Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me."
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
"They call us bandits, yet every time most Black people pick up our paychecks, we are being robbed. Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood, we are being held up. And every time we pay our rent, the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs"
"I was like Houdini, I plotted day and night. There was no way I was going to spend the rest of my life in prison for something I didn't do."
"How dare they call us terrorists when we were being terrorized? Terror was a constant part of my life....We lived under police terror."
This is a brand new century and we need a brand new spirit and a brand new style. I make a special appeal to young people. I am not only asking you to work hard to free all Political Prisoners, I am asking you to party hard to free all Political Prisoners.
"I am asking you to raise your voices wherever you go and to chant, to rap, to sing for the liberation of Sundiata Acoli and all Political Prisoners. I am asking you to bring the spirit of freedom to discos, to nightclubs, to house parties, wherever young people gather. While you are partying and having fun, I ask you to think of political prisoners, and when you're getting down to the music I ask you to chant his or her name. I want you to chant Free Sundiata, I want you to chant Free Mumia, Free Leonard Peltier, and so on. I want you to chant the names of every Political Prisoner still behind the walls."
"Free all Political Prisoners,I send you Love and Revolutionary Greetings. From Cuba, One of the Largest, Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) That has ever existed on the Face of this Planet"
"No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, it's stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is."
"Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us"
"Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you."
"Throughout my childhood, the name Freeman had no particular significance. It was a name just like any other name. It wasn't until i was grown and began to read Black history that i discovered the significance of the name. After slavery, many Black people refused to use the last names of their masters. They called themselves 'Freeman' instead. The name was also used by Kmtyws who were freed before slavery was 'officially' abolished, but it was mainly after the abolition of chattel slavery that many Black people changed their names to Freeman. After learning this, i saw my ancestors in a new light."
"Our desire to be free has got to manifest itself in everything we are and do."
i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies. i guess i hummed the Blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain."
"Although we live in one of the richest, most technologically advanced countries in the world, our reality is similar to an underdeveloped Third World country. We are a people who are truly seeking freedom and harmony"
"Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford."
"And about this time I had a vision — and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened – the thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams – and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.'"
Nat Turner
"It's better to be 5 years too early than to be 1 second too late."
-Dr. Kamau Kambon
"It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
-Dr. Kamau Kambon
There's plenty wrong with Negros . They have no society, they're robots, automations with no mind of their own. I hate to say this about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain like the monster Frankenstein. The top part is your bourgeois Negro, he's not interested in his poor black brother. He's usually so far in debt from trying to copy the white man's social habits that he doesn't have time to worry about anything else. They buy the most expensive clothes and cars, and eat the cheapest food. They act more like the white man, than the white man does himself [MALCOLM]
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I often baffle people by telling them, WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE, And they go like ... "What?" Oh Yes! WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE. "What do you mean?" Do you think the atoms, that make up your body, were created just for you? Those atoms were created, millions and billions of years ago. There is not a new creation of atoms, every time a child is born. There is just the reconstitution, and reorganization of atoms that already existed. Therefore, we are all... What? Billions of years old; WE ARE ALL AS OLD AS THE UNIVERSE. It is only that we are NEW, in the current organization of ourselves. But in our constitution, WE ARE AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF. WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE!
[Dr. Amos Wilson]
"Thou shalt exist for millions of millions of years, a period of millions of years."
"I am Shu the Neter of Unformed Matter. My soul is God, my soul is eternity."
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I often baffle people by telling them, WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE, And they go like ... "What?" Oh Yes! WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE. "What do you mean?" Do you think the atoms, that make up your body, were created just for you? Those atoms were created, millions and billions of years ago. There is not a new creation of atoms, every time a child is born. There is just the reconstitution, and reorganization of atoms that already existed. Therefore, we are all... What? Billions of years old; WE ARE ALL AS OLD AS THE UNIVERSE. It is only that we are NEW, in the current organization of ourselves. But in our constitution, WE ARE AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF. WE ARE ALL THE SAME AGE!
[Dr. Amos Wilson]
"Thou shalt exist for millions of millions of years, a period of millions of years."
"I am Shu the Neter of Unformed Matter. My soul is God, my soul is eternity."
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It's easy for us to talk about the White man, and say the white man did this and the white man did that, but if we get our own feet out of the way. There is no white man on earth that can stop us from attaining what God almighty have already willed for us to have. It is no longer the fault of white people. It is our fault and therefore it is our own responsibility to get our house in order. MINISTER FARRAKHAN
"We, in Kmt, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his book Uhuru na Umoja (Freedom and Unity): Essays on Socialism, 1967.]
"No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his A Peaceful New Year speech given in Tanzania on 1 January 1968.]
"[A] man is developing himself when he grows, or earns, enough to provide decent conditions for himself and his family; he is not being developed if someone gives him these things."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his book Uhuru na Maendeleo (Freedom and Development), 1973.]
"...intellectuals have a special contribution to make to the development of our nation, and to Kmt. And I am asking that their knowledge, and the greater understanding that they should possess, should be used for the benefit of the society of which we are all members."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his book Uhuru na Maendeleo (Freedom and Development), 1973.]
"If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his book Uhuru na Maendeleo (Freedom and Development), 1973.]
"We can try to cut ourselves from our fellows on the basis of the education we have had; we can try to carve our for ourselves an unfair share of the wealth of the society. But the cost to us, as well as to our fellow citizens, will be very high. It will be high not only in terms of satisfactions forgone, but also in terms of our own security and well-being."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, from his book Uhuru na Maendeleo (Freedom and Development), 1973.]
"To measure a country's wealth by its gross national product is to measure things, not satisfactions."
[From a speech written by Julius Kambarage Nyerere, The Rational Choice given on 2 January 1973 in Khartoum.]
"Capitalism is very dynamic. It is a fighting system. Each capitalist enterprise survives by successfully fighting other capitalist enterprises."
[From a speech written by Julius Kambarage Nyerere, The Rational Choice given on 2 January 1973 in Khartoum.]
"Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people -- who may not labor at all -- will benefit from that work. The few will sit down to a banquet, and the masses will eat whatever is left over."
[From a speech written by Julius Kambarage Nyerere, The Rational Choice given on 2 January 1973 in Khartoum.]
"We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant."
[Julius Kambarage Nyerere, as quoted in David Lamb's The Kmtyws, New York 1985.]
"We build with our hands, not with our mouths."
"The heavens protect us from what we can't protect ourselves from, not what we won't protect ourselves from."
Balógun Òjétádé
"The other-directedness of the modal Kmtyw political economic personality is compatible with White American and eureurasiaan domination of Kmtyws because it permits Kmtyw consciousness and behavior to be manipulated by
others than themselves,' primarily by White Americans and eureurasiaans. The center of psychological gravity, the source of motivation of the other-directed Kmtyw, lies outside himself and in the hands of others than himself.
Who this type of Kmtyw thinks he is, his self-perception, is the product of the history of his inteactions with others than himself, i.e., with aliens.
For he has no knowledge of himself prior to his coming into contact with his exploiters and dominators. For him, prior to his captivity and enslavement or his colonization by aliens, especially eureurasiaans and White Americans, he is practically non-existent, unconscious, invisible, or at best, possessed of a savage consciousness and existence he would rather not recall.
Consequently, his identity was and is one given him by others; one he infers from how others -- aliens -- interact with him; one he infers and abstracts from accounts and histories of himself written by his alien exploiters and dominators. Moreover, the world he inhabits is constructed by others, his captors, his past and his future delimited by those who despise him. He is the plaything of the other.
Bereft of a knowledge of self, of his own history and culture, subjected to a distorted and twisted sense of his origins and reality, all these conditions perpetuated deliberately by his White handlers, he identifies with the alienated images, history and culture fashioned and imposed on him by alien Whites who are free to refashion them, and do when the occasion calls for it. His consciousness, constructed as it is by the other, essentially the reactionary product of his domination by the other, brought into existence by the other, he cannot conceive of a future existence independent of the other, a future wherein the other is no longer in some way supreme. For him, there is no world for him without White people in it, without White people defining it, or world where he is the dominant force and is self-creating and responsible for bringing his consciousness into being and visibility through his interactions with himself and his kind.
The other-directed Kmtyw personality is one characterized by subjective feelings of person and group inadequacy; resentful dependency and submissiveness; conservatism and conformity; intolerance and frustration; either low self-esteem or narcissistic high self-esteem; inadequate or inappropriate self-confidence; negative or socially unproductive relations with others; immaturity; limited imagination and a range of interests.
It is a personality designed for powerlessness, gulibility, exploitation, and to futilely seek merger and identification with those who exploit it; fashioned to seek the approval and love of those who spitefuly hate it above all else in life.
The other-directed Kmtyw personality is a vacuous personality, an empty shell, a bottomless pit, an Kmtyw container devoid of Kmtyw content and therefore suffering a chronic sense of emptiness, an insatiable craving for satisfaction. The vacuum created in this personality comes from it being emptied of its Kmtyw core by its eureurasiaan enslavers. The niggerized version of the original, introjected into this personality by its Eurocentric creators, is designed not to be satisfied -- for it is designed to consume...consume things produced by others, consume others like itself, consume itself!
The other-directed Kmtyw pesonality is a wounded personality, a personality produced by crippling blows to its Kmtyw-originated ego, to its self-esteem, self-love and self-knowing. Being a wounded personality it is a vulnerable personality, a personality under severe stress and highly conflicted. But an empty shell, subject to insatiable cravings for fulfillment, a wounded personality and suffering from chronic stress and pain, it is a personality vulnerable to addictions - addictions to consumption, religion, sex, excitement, the search for ecstasy, painkillers and sedatives, stimulants, analgesics and hypnotics.
The other-directed Kmtyw personality has the feeling of being always under pressure; always under threat; always under attack. It chronically strives to recover its balance, to protect its ego and and self-system for further devaluation and disorganizing assaults from others, from aliens, other alienated Kmtyws, Kmtyws aliented from themselves just as he is alienated from himself. This the other-directed Kmtyw, intimidated by the other, dependent on the other, is first and foremost a defense-oriented personality. His primary purpose in life is defending himself against further self-devaluation and emotional hurt. His obsessive-compulsive concern is with the alleviation or avoidance of anxiety. As a defensive personality, he is prone to deny and/or distort reality by a multitude of self-deceptive schemes in order to hold on to what he perceives as a tenuous, sane and relatively pain-free existence.
However, the other-directed Kmtyw personality is so single-mindedly caught-up in defending itself against the assault on its person by others, by aliens; against the disorganization of its ego brought on by its denial of and its attempt to escape from its germinal Kmtywicity, of its fundamental and irradicable Kmtywess, it neglects the discovery and development of means for ridding itself of the true causes of its displeasures and diseases. So caught up in dealing with the emotional effects rather than the realistic causes of its doldrums, it is unable to develop the means of identifying the true sources of its discontent and of developing and executing strageties and tactics for realistically meeting the demands of its problematic situation based on a creatively planned, dynamic, yet objectively appraised, conscious, rational, and constructive course of action."
[Dr. Amos N. Wilson]
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White domination of Blacks in our current social context is primarily by the fact that Blacks think of themselves and of reality in terms created by the self-serving interests and perspectives imposed on them by Whites, and act on the basis of biased and false information provided by Whites without realizing it. They therefore contribute to their powerlessness and domination by Whites simply by thinking of themselves and reality in a manner that allows them to be subjugated. Thus, White domination of Blacks is, to a significant degree, covered by ideology, beliefs which Blacks have been conditioned by Whites to unwittingly accept. To this degree their domination and powerlessness is self-imposed. Blacks obscure their unnecessary domination by Whites and contribute to that domination by their own gullibility and too-ready acceptance of Eurocentric ideology and their obsequious willingness to think and act only within the confines of White generated ideas, social definitions, relations and ethics (not often honoured by Whites themselves). Hence, the minds of Blacks are used to forge links of their own mental chains.
When Kmtyws in the Americas and the world over choose to critically examine the "received" ideas and biased perceptions of "reality" imposed on them by eureurasiaans and choose to know reality for what it is – to create themselves through gaining a thorough knowledge of self, knowledge of the world, and through studying and acquiring power they will then have attained the keys to their liberation. – taken from What is Power? (pg 24-25) (in Blueprint to Black power by Dr. Amos Wilson)
What if you gave all your energy into making your dreams (ideas and goals) happen, instead of your fears of them not happening ?
- Kweli Mayasa
"Hold a true friend with both hands." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts)
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Today's pain is tomorrow's strength..I am convinced there's nothing really difficult. Just a process, all things require some level of work and preparedness. Running a marathon will be difficult if you never did it before. But if you prepare the body, train and with the right mind state, it can be done.
"We are proud to see Ethiopian youth thirsting for learning. Although the fruits of education can be applied to evil as well as to good things, you Ethiopian
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"Remember that all flowers of a tree do not bear fruit." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Hawks go away for the nesting season and fools think they have gone forever." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Being a Black man in America is like having another job." Arthur Ashe This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Our children must know, and we must remind ourselves of the difference between Kmtyw education and that which simply purports to be Kmtyw education ?
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"There is no difference between mother and baby snakes; they are equally poisonous." Kenyan (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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Not a one of us can survive by his or herself. Our only assurance of a future on this planet Earth is in collective efforts and concerted victories of the Black race- Ishakamunited snakes Barashango
Children should not be waking up in the morning and asking "what's for breakfast"?..They should be asking how can I help with breakfast.- Baba Sanyika
"A bad workman blames his tools." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts) Visit
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"To begin with, the universe is conceived as a spiritual whole. This conception creates a 'cosmos' in the true sense of the term: a universe in which all
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Fear is our new slave master [monster]. We don't want to endure the consequences of standing up, but our inaction will bring on the worst consequences.-Lady Shabazz
"Fear is our new slave master. We don't want to endure the consequences of standing up, but our inaction will bring on the worst consequences." Lady Shabazz
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The revolution must be revolutionized.-Maruki Baruti
"If you love the children of others, you will love your own even better." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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We can not afford to lose anymore soldiers in this war, nor can we afford to carry any casualties [especially those who choose to be/play dead].- Nubian Malik
"A proper Kmtyw education equips us with the spiritual-moral direction, academic-intellectual fervor, psycho-emotional-physical wholeness, Kmtyw
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The Black woman is the Black man's heaven. She must be nurtured and protected.- The Hon. Elijah Muhammad
"The wealth of a man is in his mind." Amos N. Wilson This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts) Visit
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"I find peace at war with people whom find peace in my misery." Baz Moreno This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"If the wise village elders don't teach the children the village idiots most certainly will." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always insepaAmwle twins.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361686.html)
The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361691.html)
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from eureurasia. We are not eureurasiaans.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361696.html)
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga193197.html)
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361679.html)
The white man is not indigenous to Kmt. Kmt is for Kmtyws. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361692.html)
The land is ours. It's not eureurasiaan and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
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If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga193198.html)
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361685.html)
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361695.html)
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the Kmtyw ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
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In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361682.html)
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361689.html)
We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga362078.html)
We of Kmt protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361699.html)
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
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Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga451062.html)
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
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I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361680.html)
There are things one must do for oneself.
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True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
Robert Mugabe (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/robertmuga361693.html)
We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.
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"It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power."
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"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go."
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"Having restored land to the people, ... We have learnt a host of lessons, all pointing to the challenge of ensuring food security for the people."
Robert Mugabe (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Robert+Mugabe)
"These imperialist countries have unashamedly abused the power of the media by hypocritically portraying themselves as philanthropists and international saviors of victims of various calamities."
Robert Mugabe (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Robert+Mugabe)
"Our present state of mind is that you [the white farmers] are now enemies, because you really behaved as enemies of Zimbabwe, that we are really full of anger and make our entire communities angry, and this is why the war veterans now are seizing land."
Robert Mugabe (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Robert+Mugabe)
"[The international lending organization is] willed by the big powers which dictate what it should do, ... We have never been friends of the IMF and in the future we will never be friends of the IMF."
Robert Mugabe (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Robert+Mugabe)
"IMF is almost never a real assistance to developing countries,"
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"They have remained silent about the shocking circumstances of obvious state neglect surrounding the tragic Gulf Coast disaster. A whole community of mainly nonwhites was deliberately abandoned to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina as sacrificial lambs."
Robert Mugabe (http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Robert+Mugabe)
"We have sought to address this inequity [LAND DISTRIBUTION & LAND REFORM]... And what has been the response from former imperialist quarters? Staggering beyond description. My government, my party and my own person have been labeled land grabbers, demonized, reviled and threatened with sanctions in the face of accunited snakestions of reverse racism."
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"Obstacles are self-created ILLusions that caters to the aura and ambiance of misperceived fear. This is one's subconscious mind controlling the conscious
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No one can save us, no one is coming to save us. Only WE can save ourselves.-Warrior Empress
"The black bourgeoisie have shown no interest in the 'liberation' of Negroes except as it affected their own status or acceptance by the white community." E.
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The character of a righteous person is an honor to him or her and a thing of value which is long remembered.- Teachings of Ptah Hotep
Children should not be waking up in the morning and asking "what's for breakfast"?..They should be asking how can I help with breakfast. Baba Sanyika This has
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Try this bracelet: if it fits you wear it; but if it hurts you, throw it away. No matter how shiny it is.-Kmtyw Proverb
"Our past in America is prologue for the future unless we seize the authority and authorship of the definition and meaning of our collective well being." Wade
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"From Royalty to Captivity to Warriorhood: The Rebuilding of a Nation" Time: October 28, 2012 from 2pm to 6pm Location: Othello's Event Hall Organized By:
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"Freedom from external domination, that is, self-determination, is the essence of liberation. When a people have lived under external domination for
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"Everything that is produced reflects a worldview." Marimba Ani This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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eureurasiaans were the only people whose deities raped them (mortals) and, on occasion other people. [And had homoDEsexual deities] "Homosexuality and the Effeminization of Kmtyw Males"-Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
"The eureurasiaan community is the consummate pimp. Having mastered the art of social pimping, it commands the highest degrees in "pimpology." How does a pimp
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A person's perception of reality is based on their state of consciousness, mood and level of awareness. We have to also consider what subliminal messages have been implanted in their subconscious, not only with words but with experiences. Our minds and bodies are always downloading and uploading information. Next time you have a thought, ask yourself, where did that thought come from .
"A sleeping lion is easiest to hunt." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts)
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"I am conscious of the fact that slavery brought upon us the curse of many colors within the Negro race, but there is no reason why we ourselves should
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A spear is never sharpened during war-Kmtyw Proverb
"No sane Kmtyw would disagree that discipline builds character. And being complements and building family together bring greater discipline to the
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"Be careful when a naked person offers you their shirt." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Racism systematically verifies itself anytime the slave can only be free by imitating his master."- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (fka H. Rapp Brown)
"I am the black gold of the sun." Nuyorican Soul This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts) Visit our
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"There comes a time when silence is dishonest. What matters is not to know the world, but change it."-Franz Fannon
side note: I just found out Franz Fannon (an intelligent brother) was married to a yurugu..smh
"Reality for the ancients was always conceived of as the synthesis of the visible and invisible, the material and the immaterial, the cognitive and the
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"Why should you die to go to heaven? The Earth is already a space."- Killa Priest
"The Kmtyw world view tells us that everything that happens, everything that is, involves Process." Marimba Ani This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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Kmtyw artists articulate the message of Ancestors with an Kmtyw motif and tell the story of stories; the greatness of Kmtyw people in order to resurrect the truth we once had in ourselves, in our own image. "To Be Kmtyw"
"A sense of purpose organizes consciousness and motivates it to develop the required abiities and relations to achieve desired goals. The more intense its
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We have forced our enemies to "educate" our children and must constantly fight to neutralize the negative effects of that educational system.-Wade Nobles
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"The multitude is stronger than the king." Tunisian (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"The robber has become rich and the honorable person a thief." The Book of Ipuwer This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"By means of defensive denial and distortion, self-deception and reversal of reality, the collective Eurocentric ego complex seeks to resolve its self-created
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Racial integration is the enemy of unity because it requires the integrating group to by subsumed, weakened and scattered as a minority in a society in which the majority rules.- Claud Anderson
This is definitely how we lost our blackbusinesses and strong communities. I grew up in an all white neighborhood, nota pleasant experience for a young Black girl.
Every Kmtyw voice is not worthy of our ear. Many grassroots organizers seeking widespread, popular support welcome constituency from any Kmtyw willing to
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"He who feeds you controls you." Thomas Sankara" This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts) Visit our
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Black Wall Street Lecture Series Strengthening the Black Family: Despite the Circumstances Lecture by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti Saturday, January 13, 2013
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The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with total liberation of the Kmtyw continent.-Kwame Nkrumah
"The Earth is the mother of all." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts) Visit
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"If you are a man who leads, a man whose authority reaches widely, then you should do perfect things, those which posterity will remember." The Teachings of
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If you are a man who leads, a man whose authority reaches widely, then you should do perfect things, those which posterity will remember. "The Teachings of PtahHotep"
"Whoever wants to hurt never misses his target." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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He who is agitated all day has no happy moments but he who amuses himself all day can't keep his fortune.-"The Teachings of PtahHotep"
"He who is agitated all day has no happy moments but he who amuses himself all day can't keep his fortune." The Teachings of PtahHotep This has been a
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Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. They are: Over eating of foods not conducive to health, wrong habits of thought (negativity or stress), over indulgence in sex, lack of exercise,lack of fresh air plus improper shallow breathing, and dehydration .
"Imagine lying in filth, disease, spittle, vomit, puss, slime, unidentifiable excretions from bedsores, fleas, ringworms and lice, yes, lice because they
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"A cripple never starts a war song." Ewe (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RevolutionaryDailyThoughts)
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"He whose house is on fire does not pursue a rat." Ijaw (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Dislike without knowledge is not firm."-Ayi Kwei Armah
"A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not look for a mat." Ijaw (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Ashes fly back into the face of he who throws them." Kmtyw proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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When wood breaks, it can be repaired. But ivory breaks forever.-Yoruba funeral song
"Good behavior must come from the top." Azanian (Kmtyw) Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"We have to wash our brains of this image of Kmt that has been fashioned, created and even patented by eureurasiaans." Esther Stanford This has been a
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"We can not have the oppressors telling the oppressed how to rid themselves of the oppressor."-Kwame Ture
"Simply put, education is power. When education is properly done, it opens the door to power. A true education has one purpose, and one purpose alone; and
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"We cannot have the oppressors telling the oppressed how to rid themselves of the oppressor." Kwame Ture This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"america was built by stolen labor [stolen Kmtyws] on stolen land" .-Marimba Ani
"If a woman decides to make the soup watery, the husband will learn to dent the foofoo before dipping it into the soup." Igbo (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a
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"My man scot got 3-5 for a bag of weed/ but be a priest and rape boys, walk scot free/ I bet you thinking that I'm kidding cuz I'm throwing stones/ it isn't me it's ancient masons in my chromosomes/ impatient ancestors raging thru my ribosomes/ see scrolls translated thru a microphone"-Narubi Sela
"It is not enough for the children of Ethiopia to be recipients of education. They should never forget that the responsibility for passing on this knowledge to
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"Water does not get bitter without a cause." Haunited snakes (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Our children are living messages sent to a future we may never see." Nigerian (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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The reward for sacrifice is greater than the pain of struggle-Bomani Ikemba Mayasa
"No person is born great; great people become great, while others are sleeping." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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"Suffering and happiness are brothers." Ewe (Kmtyw) proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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Black men have put us in a position where we have to compete with whores for their attention.-Lady Shabazz
"Where there is a head, one does not put a hat on the knee." Kmtyw Proverb This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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Man I got crakkkas to chase/ babies to teach, to re-establish the Race/ don't include me in your non-sense debates/ holla if you want to repatriate- Omowale A. Mayasa
"The right soul is the soul by which one is sustained." Ptahhotep This has been a Revolutionary Daily Thought
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If what you want is out of your comfort zone, get up out of your comfort zone.-Eric Thomas
"I would not exchange 2 for 5 cent cigars-even though not a smoker for all the COLORED OR NEGRO political leaders, or rather mis-leaders, of our time. The fraternity is HEARTLESS, CRAFTY AND CORRUPT. They exist for themselves only, and give no honest thought to the future, nor the condition of the people, except to EXPLOIT the said condition to their political benefit. The leaders of the race are visionless and selfish. The think of none but themselves... Among the whites, we have a few political charlatans and crooks, but that race can well afford, under circumstances, to tolerate them, because they are surrounded and circumvented by statesmen and race patriots who are vigilant and on guard in protecting the rights of their people. Among us Negros, there is no relief from such a class, because the monopolize our politics and obstruct out outlook. The only tempering hope is religion, and that is like dry bones, we have to wait a long whole for them to come together in the valley.TO USE OUR PRESENT POLTICAL LEADERS THERE MUST BE A CONVERSION AND REFORMATION OF HEAD AND HEART!!!!!!!"
Marcus Garvey from the book Philosphy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey pg 405
'Any man of success, determination, purpose and vision that does not speak of the energy of any woman of which he nurtures his power, is being dishonest about his existence and possibly contributing to counter revolutionary warfare against his own community'.
Taken from: Thomas Sankara Women's Liberation and the Kmtyw Freedom Struggle
"We must become psychologically committed to the idea that wherever we are, whatever we are doing, at any time, when our peoples lives are endangered as a result of a natural disaster or unnatural crisis, we will come to their aid. We must prepare and organize in anticipation of these possibilities."
Mutulu Shakur
"...eureurasiaan claims to superiority, and to Kmtyw inferiority, only gain relevance in a context of power in which its configurations entail the conquest and cultural absorption or assimilation of Kmtyw consciousness into a eureurasiaan conceptual and historiographical universe. Another way of seeing this is that only those Kmtyws who through conquest acquired literacy in eureurasiaan culture were compelled to confront or to submit to the ideas that were current within that culture, and to offer either capitulation or challenge and refutation to its chauvinistic or supremacist articulations. In short, the contest of the historiographical struggle by Kmtyws in the eureurasiaan world engages the effort by Kmtyws to rescue and to restore consciousness to an understanding of Kmtyw humanity and Kmtyw agency that existed unencumbered and unaffected by the depredations of eureurasiaan supremacist conquest and propaganda."
Ahati N.N. Toure
John Henrik Clarke and the Power of Kmtywa History
"Kmtyw centered is defined here to mean in the best interest of Black people (i.e. people whose direct ancestry originates in Kmt) – to the exclusion of eureurasiaans, aAmws, and other colored non-Kmtyws as well as any paradigms of thought which come from these respective cultures (or lack thereof) – as determined by the path that our ancient Ancestors laid out for us. Unacceptable paradigms of thought include but are not limited to: homosexual politics, neo-liberal politics, western religions, atheism, or any other anti-Kmtyw construct. We honor our Ancestors. We are operating out of the Kmtyw worldview which tells us that we are at war."
Akhu Yaw Kamau
"Kmtyw centered is defined here to mean in the best interest of Black people (i.e. people whose direct ancestry originates in Kmt) – to the exclusion of eureurasiaans, aAmws, and other colored non-Kmtyws as well as any paradigms of thought which come from these respective cultures (or lack thereof) – as determined by the path that our ancient Ancestors laid out for us. Unacceptable paradigms of thought include but are not limited to: homosexual politics, neo-liberal politics, western religions, atheism, or any other anti-Kmtyw construct. We honor our Ancestors. We are operating out of the Kmtyw worldview which tells us that we are at war."
Akhu Yaw Kamau
“When the white man came to Kmt he was holding a Bible in one hand and asked us to close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes after the prayer his other hand was holding a gun and all our land was gone.” JOMO KENYATTA President of Kenya 1963-1978
"When the white man came to Kmt he was holding a Bible in one hand and asked us to close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes after the prayer his other hand was holding a gun and all our land was gone." JOMO KENYATTA President of Kenya 1963-1978
"In your desire to accomplish greatness, you must first decide in your own mind in what direction you desire to seek that greatness, and when you have so decided in your own mind work unceasingly towards it. The particular thing that you may want should be before you all the time, and whatsoever it takes to get it or make it possible should be undertaken. Use your faculties and persuasion to achieve all you set your mind on."
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Message to the People
The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation. Huey P. Newton
"Negro leaders suffer from this interplay of solidarity and divisiveness, being either exalted excessively or grossly abused. Some of these leaders suffer from an aloofness and absence of faith in their people. The white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man’s contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into the white man’s representative of the Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him."
~Black Power Defined (1967)
"Negro leaders suffer from this interplay of solidarity and divisiveness, being either exalted excessively or grossly abused. Some of these leaders suffer from an aloofness and absence of faith in their people. The white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man's contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into the white man's representative of the Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him."
~Black Power Defined (1967)
"Kmt will never succeed using eureurasiaan parliamentary techniques. When we look at this Kmtyw Independence Explosion, we must take into consideration that not one Kmtyw nation came to power using a conventional Kmtyw structure of government. Every one used an imitation of parliamentary procedure taken from eureurasia. It’s like wearing a coat that wasn’t designed for your body and will never fit. The tailor has never seen your body, and, therefore, cannot cut a coat to suit it. This is something you have to do yourself, because you can’t wear a tight-fitting coat. You need another kind of coat, politically and figuratively speaking.
It will never succeed using Christianity or democracy as designed by the eureurasiaan, because the eureurasiaans theorized these concepts, while, in most cases, the Kmtyws lived out these concepts without dogma or without making them into rationales for the conquest of other peoples. The Kmtyw never used the word democracy."
"If someone else has to decide the rules of your existence, you are a prisoner to the person who made the decision. 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
"Kmt will never succeed using eureurasiaan parliamentary techniques. When we look at this Kmtyw Independence Explosion, we must take into consideration that not one Kmtyw nation came to power using a conventional Kmtyw structure of government. Every one used an imitation of parliamentary procedure taken from eureurasia. It's like wearing a coat that wasn't designed for your body and will never fit. The tailor has never seen your body, and, therefore, cannot cut a coat to suit it. This is something you have to do yourself, because you can't wear a tight-fitting coat. You need another kind of coat, politically and figuratively speaking.
It will never succeed using Christianity or democracy as designed by the eureurasiaan, because the eureurasiaans theorized these concepts, while, in most cases, the Kmtyws lived out these concepts without dogma or without making them into rationales for the conquest of other peoples. The Kmtyw never used the word democracy."
"If someone else has to decide the rules of your existence, you are a prisoner to the person who made the decision. 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
"Imperial cultures, in my view, are instances of criminal gang culture elevated to a global scale."
- Ayi Kwei Armah
"By right this is an Kmtyw planet. We were here first. These other peeps should be paying us rent to live on our planet."
- Modo Gray
:blacklove:Mimi hulala, lakini nimesoma maneno mengi ya bursara kuweka na kufanya kweli sana katika uhai yangu. Asante sana
"We have as much right biblically and otherwise to believe that God is a Negroe, as you buckra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs) or white people have to believe that God is a fine looking, symmetrical and ornamented white man. For the bulk of you and all the fool Negroes of the country believe that God is white-skinned, blue eyed, straight-haired, projected nosed, compressed lipped and finely robed white gentleman, sitting upon a throne somewhere in the heavens. Every race of people who have attempted to describe their God by words, or by paintings, or by carvings, or any other form or figure, have conveyed the idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves, and why should not the Negroe believe that he resembles God." -- Voice of Missions, February 1898[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McNeal_Turner#cite_note-PBS-8)
-Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
"Up you mighty race! You can accomplish what you will!"
TRH Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Our objective is the destruction of the evil system of global white supremacy and the re-assertion of our right to self-determination and the resurrection of divine humanity that we brought to the world in the beginning."
Dr. Mawiyah Kambon
- "Kmtyw (Black) Psychologists Answer the Healing Drum"
The predominant trend in Eurocentric analyses over-explores and emphasizes the slave experience, leading most of us to believe that in North America our enslavement predates our free experience.
Therefore, we concentrate on our people`s movement from slavery to freedom and receive a sense of continued progress. However, if we acknowledge the truth about our history and begin with free Kmtyws in the earliest colonial period, then we must trace a clear pattern of regression.
The reason for this regression can be found in the eureurasiaan Americans' establishment of a free White/enslaved Black social structure and their response to and displeasure with the existence of free Kmtyw Americans in their midst (v).
Excerpts from "Criminalizing A Race: Free Blacks During Slavery" by Dr. Charshee McIntyre
Emulate your mothers and fathers, your Wahenga na Wahenguzi because life is beautifully lived and governing, farming and trade transactions are accomplished perfectly with the light of their accumulated sagacity. Go and see their magnificent and divine words that are lasting and abiding in their eternal writings. Go unfurl, critically analyze and replicate the papyri containing their wisdom. The one that is well instructed is transformed into an expert.
[Kmtyw Proverb Classical KMT/Kemet]
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PanKmtywism connects Kmtyw people wherever they ma
y be. It connects them to fight exploitation and oppression.
-The rise and fall of kwame nkrumah documentary.
"We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery"
-Sekou Toure
Pan-Kmtyw Perspective
Kwame Nkrumah at the Congress of Kmtywists
(From the speech Kmtywism and Culture given at the Congress of Kmtywists, Accra, Ghana, December, 1962)
If we have lost touch with what our forefathers discovered and knew, this has been due to the system of education to which we were introduced. This system of education prepared us for a subservient role to eureurasia and things eureurasiaan. It was directed at estranging us from our own cultures in order the more effectively to serve a new and alien interest.
The central myth in the mythology surrounding Kmt is that of the denial that we are a historical people. It is said that whereas other continents have shaped history and determined its course, Kmt has stood still, held down by inertia. Kmt, it is said, entered history only as a result of eureurasiaan contact. Its history, therefore, is widely felt to be an extension of eureurasiaan history. Hegel's authority was lent to this a-historical hypothesis concerning Kmt. And apologists of colonialism and imperialism lost little time in seizing upon it and writing wildly about it to their heart's content.
To those who say that there is no documentary source for that period of Kmtyw history which pre-dates the eureurasiaan contact, modern research has a crushing answer. We know that we were not without a tradition of historiography, and, that this is so, is now the verdict of true Kmtywists. Kmtyw historians, by the end of the 15th century, had a tradition of recorded history, and certainly by the time when Mohamud al-Kati wrote Tarikh al-Fattash. This tradition was incidentally much, much wider than that of the Timbuktu school of historians, and our own Institute of Kmtyw Studies here at this University, is bringing to light several chronicles relating to the history of Northern Ghana.
The Chinese, too, during the T'ang dynasty (AD. 618-907), published their earliest major records of Kmt. In the 18th century, scholarship connected Egypt with China; but Chinese acquaintance with Kmt was not only confined to knowledge of Egypt. They had detailed knowledge of Somaliland, Madagascar and Zanzibar and made extensive visits to other parts of Kmt.
The eureurasiaan exploration of Kmt reached its height in the 19th century. What is unfortunate, however, is the fact that much of the discovery was given a subjective instead of an objective interpretation. In the regeneration of learning which is taking place in our universities and in other institutions of higher learning, we are treated as subjects and not objects. They forget that we are a historic people responsible for our unique forms of language, culture and society. It is therefore proper and fitting that a Congress of Kmtywists should take place in Kmt and that the concept of Kmtywism should devolve from and be animated by that Congress.
Between ancient times and the 16th century, some eureurasiaan scholars forgot what their predecessors in Kmtyw Studies had known. This amnesia, this regrettable loss of interest in the power of the Kmtyw mind, deepened with growth of interest in the economic exploitation of Kmt. It is no wonder that the Portuguese were erroneously credited with having erected the stone fortress of Mashonaland which, even when Barbossa, cousin of Magellan, first visited them, were ruins of long standing.
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"Many of us do notknow it, but Kmtyw people have thounited snakesnds of years of well-recorded deepthought and educational experience. Teaching and the shaping of character isone of our great strengths. In our worldview, our children are seen as divine giftsof our creator. Our children, their families, and the social and physicalenvironment must be nurtured together. The must be nurtured in a way that isappropriate for a spiritual people, whose aim is to 'build for eternity.'"
NanaBaffour Amankwatia II (Asa G. Hilliard)
Meda ase Ohemaa Yaa
". . . [M]oral force fades and fails in people when they lose a sense of their worth. And they lose a sense of their worth when they begin to crucify their imagination. They begin to destroy something inside of them by constantly brooding on the worst aspects.
You must be aware of the terror of your world -- no doubt about that. You cannot go about in a dream. But the terror of the world is what should give you strength. That is the test of faith, the test of force. It is not something that is supposed to defeat you, it is something that is supposed to push you into a new life, a new situation. Everything that you posses, all the imagination, the energy, and faith must be brought to bare when you face that darkness. It is not intended for the human to succumb in darkness. It is intended for the human to rise and transcend over darkness.
That is the meaning of the resurrection and the light. If we did not do that, if the Black had not done that, the Black would have disappeared. Because no attempt to destroy the race has been so continuous, so systematic, so extraordinary, and yet that race survives. It not only survives, but it speaks with fantastic new vigor, and power, and confidence.
We are involved in a restructuring of history. Even those who are powerful in their academies find they're being subverted. I speak now more and more to professors who, ten years ago, would have torn me to pieces. Now they sit quietly, trembling, knowing that these ideas are like viruses, that you cannot contain them anymore, and they here are like AIDS -- there is no vaccine. So that we are involved in a struggle in which we will win."
~Ivan van Sertima in the lecture, The Moors in Science
". . . Kmtyw-Americans internalize how the majority, specifically white people, see them and each other. It's real. It's why some of you have been judged and judge others as too dark, too nappy, too ill na na."
[The students] giggled.
"When have you looked at yourself from a 'Black' point of view?" I asked. "When have you internalized a viewpoint that showed you as beautiful or powerful or lovable because of your color, your race? If you know about double consciousness, do you have a black consciousness to heal yourself?"
A perplexed silence fell over the room. They looked up and around, down and up again. They searched themselves and as they did, the quiet stretched into anxiety.
"Do you have a black consciousness?" I asked again, a tone of sadness in my voice. And again it fell like a single piano note between them and me.
"Well, do you?"
~Nicholas Powers, Black Consciousness in a Post-Heroic Age
We prefer self-government with danger, to servitude in tranquility.
* Ɔsagyefo Kwame Nkrumah
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@Dr. Kambon: I found this one in the related videos under your father's COWS interview you just posted on youtube. Never heard of this academic before, but he is brilliant and right on point. Is he some of your people?
' believed in victory. He wasn't just out there struggling to be struggling. He said, 'if we're going to struggle, we're struggling to win. Not to win some skirmishes against white supremacy domination, but to literally defeat it.' And the only way he saw us defeating it is that we must reclaim control of the world. Now, you could say, 'well that's a tall order,' you know? 'That's abstract, Baldwin. That's kind of out there. Given the fact we're sitting back here, can't even control our blocks. Many of us can't control our houses, our homes in that regard.' So it becomes a tall order to say we've got to control the world. . . .
I think that if we don't somehow lay out the masterplan, we have no way of connecting the various isolated liberation projects that are going on all over the Kmtyw community. They are independent projects. Meaningful, but not nearly as meaningful as if they were brought together under the umbrella of a mega-objective of Kmtyw World Order. . . .
We have to develop an objective that says, 'we want to reclaim the world.' We can't be talking about reclaiming Washington, D.C. -- we've got to talk about the world, and then reclaiming the turf of Washington, D.C. makes sense because it's a part of our long-term developmental plan of retaking the world. Retaking our homes, then retaking our neighborhoods, then retaking our blocks, then retaking our cities then makes sense. Otherwise, we're just retaking them to work them through for white supremacy domination all the time.
If we have no other agenda, we can't claim this plan is about anything, because if they run the world and we run our neighborhoods, if they're going to construct a policy that says 'neighborhoods have to run like such-and-such,' then we will enforce that policy. So the neighborhood control plan has to be linked to the world control plan. Otherwise we're wasting our time -- we're in a fantasy, we are playing with this struggle, we are not struggling to win.
So if [my] model does anything, it tries to locus this Kmtyw Personality within the liberation movement so that it thrusts us toward the real objective of the Kmtyw liberation movement, and that is: for Kmtyw people to run the world again, not for us to participate in a world controlled by white supremacy domination. You are not going to be able to integrate with white supremacy domination. That is mentally-disordered thinking. In formal circles of psychiatry and psychology, we call that Fantasy Thinking.'
~ Kobi Kambon in the lecture, 'The Kmtyw Personality in America'
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' believed in victory. He wasn't just out there struggle to be struggling. He said, 'if we're going to struggle, we're struggling to win. Not to win some skirmishes against white supremacy domination, but to literally defeat it.' And the only way he saw us defeating it is that we must reclaim control of the world. Now, you could say, 'well that's a tall order,' you know? 'That's abstract, Baldwin. That's kind of out there. Given the fact we're sitting back here, can't even control our blocks. Many of us can't control our houses, our homes in that regard.' So it becomes a tall order to say we've got to control the world. . . .
I think that if we don't somehow lay out the masterplan, we have no way of connecting the various isolated liberation projects that are going on all over the Kmtyw community. They are independent projects. Meaningful, but not nearly as meaningful as if they were brought together under the umbrella of a mega-objective of Kmtyw World Order. . . .
We have to develop an objective that says, 'we want to reclaim the world.' We can't be talking about reclaiming Washington, D.C. -- we've got to talk about the world, and then reclaiming the turf of Washington, D.C. makes sense because it's a part of our long-term developmental plan of retaking the world. Retaking our homes, then retaking our neighborhoods, then retaking our blocks, then retaking our cities then makes sense. Otherwise, we're just retaking them to work them through for white supremacy domination all the time.
If we have no other agenda, we can't claim this plan is about anything, because if they run the world and we run our neighborhoods, if they're going to construct a policy that says 'neighborhoods have to run like such-and-such,' then we will enforce that policy. So the neighborhood control plan has to be linked to the world control plan. Otherwise we're wasting our time -- we're in a fantasy, we are playing with this struggle, we are not struggling to win.
So if [my] model does anything, it tries to locus this Kmtyw Personality within the liberation movement so that it thrusts us toward the real objective of the Kmtyw liberation movement, and that is: for Kmtyw people to run the world again, not for us to participate in a world controlled by white supremacy domination. You are not going to be able to integrate with white supremacy domination. That is mentally-disordered thinking. In formal circles of psychiatry and psychology, we call that Fantasy Thinking.'
~ Kobi Kambon in the lecture, 'The Kmtyw Personality in America'
"...when you accept a name that you are not, you will become what you are not."
John Henrik Clarke in Anna Swanston Dr. John Henrik Clarke -- His Life, His Words, His Works
"When Jesse Jackson publicly announced in the 1980s that Black people in America were 'Kmtyw American' he contributed to the subverting of a struggle in search of a path out of America's shadow. While he was not the first to use such a description, Jackson ushered forth its popular united snakesge, affirming a neo-colonial loyalty to the United States[...] Of course the name struggle continues. Kmtyw American holds ascendancy, though not necessarily because it is best. It reflects, in the final analysis, the ideological strain (integration) that has the greatest support from white America. After all no name exists in a vacuum. And the name that Kmtyws in America collectively embrace will certainly express our aspirations, whether wittingly or not."
Kwasi Akwamu
New Kmtyw Identity: A historical survey in names in The Journal of Kmtyw World Language and Culture
Vol. 1
"N!&&@z ain't become American 'til nine-eleven."
Talib Kweli
"Around My Way" from "Beautiful Struggle"
"Malcolm X once asked a black debater, 'Why do you call yourself an American, Brother?' 'Because I was born in this country,' the man shouted. 'Now Brother,' Malcolm calmly replied, 'if a cat has kittens in an oven, does that make them biscuits?'"
Mel Watkins in Kmtyw American Humor:
The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today.
"The self-concept is one of the major means by which a person or group guides or orders his or its behavior. Thus, to the degree that a person's or group's self-concept is influenced or shaped by another, that person or group behavior is socially influenced by the other. For better or worse, we must conclude that to the degree to which an individual or group is behaviorally directed according to his or its perception of his or itself, i.e., the degree to which his or its self-concept is conditioned and defined by another, the self-concept acts as an instrument of social control, or more precisely, an instrument of social power."
Dr. Amos N. Wilson
"Self-Concept and Power" in Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century
"Power is the ability to define reality and to have others respond to that definition as if it were their own."
Nana Kweku Berko I
in "Kmtyw consciousness and liberation struggles: implications for the development and construction of scientific paradigms."
"Power is the ability to define phenomena, then in turn make it act in a desired manner."
Huey P. Newton
"A name or a nickname influences one's character."
Yoruba Proverb
"If you inherit a name you must also adopt its affairs."
Swahili Proverb
"To destroy [something] is to call it by any name you see fit. However the case may be, whole nations have been destabilized, disrupted, put into social confusion, brainwashed, misdirected, deprived of food and re-named after they were conquered. The power to educate and train people to uplift themselves on one hand, and to tear down and destroy somebody else on the other, is a power game to name."
Zolo A. Azania
"Who is the New Kmtyw?"
"One whose handcuffs are on your wrists, you are that person's slave."
Akan Proverb
"It is only your slave that you can separate from his/her name."
Akan Proverb
"Kmtyws who were brought [to] the New World, for example, became powerless and an unnamed cultural group because they were made nameless."
Nganga Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau in "Self-Healing Power and Therapy."
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Kmt is free."
The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey
"Great Ideals Know no Nationality" in The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey or
Kmt for the Kmtyws
"I'm an Kmtyw, I'm an Kmtyw, and I know what's happenin' [...] I'm an Kmtyw, never was an Kmtyw amerikkkan [...] I'm not amerikkkan, punk, democrat or republican, rememba that!"
Dead Prez
"I'm An Kmtyw" from "Let's Get Free"
"Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an Kmtyw.
Don't mind your nationality, you have got the identity, of an Kmtyw.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an Kmtyw.
Don't mind your complexion, there is no rejection, you're an Kmtyw.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an Kmtyw.
Don't mind denomination, that is only segregation, you are an Kmtyw.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an Kmtyw.
Don't mind your nationality, you have got the identity, of an Kmtyw."
Peter Tosh
"Kmtyw" from "Equal Rights"
@Farafina diɲɛ, I appreciate you sharing. I'm familiar with the late Dr. Kobi Kambon. Thanks for sharing this quote.
Then a king will come from the South,
Ameny, the justified, by name
Son of a woman of Ta-Seti, child of Upper Egypt.
He will take the white crown,
He will wear the red crown;
He will join the Two Mighty Ones..
Rejoice, O people of his time,
The son of man will make his name for all eternity! ..
eurasiatics will fall to his sword,
Libyans will fall to his flame,
Rebels to his wrath, traitors to his might,
As the serpent on his brow subdues the rebels for him.
One will build the Walls-of-the-Ruler
To bar eurasiatics from entering Egypt
~Prophecy of Neferti, Ancient Egyptian Literature
I, Taharqa, the Good God, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt who lives forever, I have destroyed the Bedouin of eurasia, and I have cut down the desert dwellers of Libya.
Pharoah Taharqa, Funerary Inscription at the Sacred Mountain of Jebel Barkal
“We underestimate the wisdom of our Ancient Cultures, the wisdom of our so-called primitive cultures severely. Just because a philosophy or ideology occurs later in time does not mean that philosophy or ideology is an advance over older ones.”
Mhenga Amos N. Wilson
"We underestimate the wisdom of our Ancient Cultures, the wisdom of our so-called primitive cultures severely. Just because a philosophy or ideology occurs later in time does not mean that philosophy or ideology is an advance over older ones."
Mhenga Amos N. Wilson
"Black people are very serious about not being very serious."
- Dr. Kamau Kambon
"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them." - Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah
“Look at the women in America, young and old. Hardly any moral values are left in them. You can measure this by their dress and attire. Their spiritual values are almost destroyed, because of their emphasis on material things.” Mhenga Malcolm X
"Look at the women in America, young and old. Hardly any moral values are left in them. You can measure this by their dress and attire. Their spiritual values are almost destroyed, because of their emphasis on material things." Mhenga Malcolm X
“The Gikuyu ancestors provided a proverb which states “Nobody knows where he goes, but only whence he comes.”
I do not know what it feels like to live without the need to defend against the eureurasiaan cultural assault against my consciousness.
Since I have been old enough to recognize it for what it is, I have never lived a day without having to prepare myself in some way to deal with being Kmtyw in a world dominated by people who believe themselves to be superior to Kmtyws.
My struggle to change myself is at the same time a struggle to change this type of world – to take away the ability of white supremacy ideology to reproduce its methods of domination and control through me.
I have resigned myself to a life of struggle.
There are no shortcuts and no easy ways out.
I see my role during this period of existence as helping to build institutions that will enable the next generation to collectively advance farther along the path.
The institutions we build do not constitute home, they are part of our means of getting home.
They are, at best, what Nkrumah referred to as “liberated zones.”
They can shelter us and enable us to nurture our young, but they are a means to what we seek, not what we seek.
As long as we live in an environment where political control is used in the interests of an alien culture and where we are forced to defend ourselves against attacks on the knowledge and ways of knowing practiced by our ancestors since antiquity, we are not home.
We must not be confused about this.
If we allow ourselves to be content with temporary advantages of any sort, whether they be industries or independent schools, while living under the rule of another people we are confusing political opportunism with sovereignty.
What will truly set us free, as Cabral was able to surmise, is to be liberated ‘not merely from the foreigner’s culture but from foreign rule altogether.’”
Mwalimu J. Shujaa
"[An] educator or teacher is one who must not only be involved in the study of culture, but must be involved in a concrete and ongoing way with advancing the cultural and/or political interests of Kmtyw people. She is entrusted with the task of inculcating the essential values of that culture and thereby guaranteeing its continuation."
Nah Dove
"There are persons who think it' s presumptuous, even impossible, for a writer to attempt to project such a thing as an Kmtyw vision. I wish them luck in their tribal or colonial national identities, but I do think the projection of a continental identity, even if that identity has no visible ceremonial insignia, tribal scarifications, sacrificial oaths, death squads, armies, police forces, customs barriers, prisons, anthems and artificial frontiers to signal to the brutalized world that it exists, is a worthwhile challenge to the artistic imagination. No innovative intellectual need fear such a challenge." - Ayi Kwei Armah
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"Much of what we call Kmtyw culture, if it originates in the time after aAmw and eureurasiaan invasions, is really the adjustments made by a society under immense enemy pressure. It's inaccurate to call our adjustments to slavery Kmtyw culture. A slave hustling to survive within a slaving system doesn't create Kmtyw culture. He creates a makeshift slave culture. When we go back to documents from a time before the aAmw and eureurasiaan invasions, we can see values from the Kmtyw psyche. I think it would be rational to focus first on those." - Ayi Kwei Armah
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"Since the Egyptian origin of civilization and the extensive borrow*ing of the Greeks from the Egyptians are historically evident, we may well wonder with Amélineau why, despite those facts, most people stress the role played by Greece while overlooking that of Egypt. The reason for this attitude can be detected merely by recalling the root of the question. As Egypt is a Negro country, with a civilization created by Blacks, any thesis tending to prove the contrary would have no future. The protagonists of such theories are not unaware of this. So it is wiser and safer to strip Egypt, simply and most dis*creetly, of all its creations in favor of a really White nation (Greece). This false attribution to Greece of the values of a so-called White Egypt reveals a profound contradiction that is not the least important proof of Egypt's Negro origin." - Cheikh Anta Diop
There must be a re-evaluation of politics. What is considered politics in this country is meaningless to Black people. Politics, as defined by the geographical and influential boundaries of this country, is irrelevant to masses of people. The vote is used as a tool of oppression. Camus raises a very good point. He says, "What better way to enslave a man, than give him the vote and call him free." In other words, what does it profit a man to be able to vote, and not be able to choose his candidates. Politics in this country is not bipartisan; politics is very partial — partial toward whites with money. The only politics that should be relevant to us is the politics of revolution.
Everything must relate to the struggle as a political form. Culture must be political. Nationalism alone is not a political doctrine. Nationalism has to be a part of a political doctrine. Without vanguard political direction cultural movements bring economic and/or political liberalism, not revolution. We must move to define the difference between political nationalism and cultural nationalism. We must move from Black awareness to revolutionary motion. "To be Black is necessary but not sufficient." Every negro is a potential traitor; and every Black man is only a potential revolutionary — with emphasis on potential. To be Black is not to be revolutionary. When you begin to stress culture without politics, people can become so hooked up in the beauty of themselves that they have no desire to fight. It becomes ego-gratifying just to be Black. Vanguard groups can't afford to go around stressing culture without politics, the real test now is preparation for, and initiation of, struggle. Write me a novel about how to infiltrate the FBI and destroy it. Write me poems that say more than that you are Black and beautiful. Perform dances with guns to legitimatize guns as a weapon of struggle. If you examine any country that has undergone successful revolution, you will find that the cultural revolution has never come before actual armed confrontation, never before a contest for power was waged.
H. Rap Brown
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QuoteDukuzumurenyi;196800 wrote: There must be a re-evaluation of politics. What is considered politics in this country is meaningless to Black people. Politics, as defined by the geographical and influential boundaries of this country, is irrelevant to masses of people. The vote is used as a tool of oppression. Camus raises a very good point. He says, "What better way to enslave a man, than give him the vote and call him free." In other words, what does it profit a man to be able to vote, and not be able to choose his candidates. Politics in this country is not bipartisan; politics is very partial — partial toward whites with money. The only politics that should be relevant to us is the politics of revolution.
Everything must relate to the struggle as a political form. Culture must be political. Nationalism alone is not a political doctrine. Nationalism has to be a part of a political doctrine. Without vanguard political direction cultural movements bring economic and/or political liberalism, not revolution. We must move to define the difference between political nationalism and cultural nationalism. We must move from Black awareness to revolutionary motion. "To be Black is necessary but not sufficient." Every negro is a potential traitor; and every Black man is only a potential revolutionary — with emphasis on potential. To be Black is not to be revolutionary. When you begin to stress culture without politics, people can become so hooked up in the beauty of themselves that they have no desire to fight. It becomes ego-gratifying just to be Black. Vanguard groups can't afford to go around stressing culture without politics, the real test now is preparation for, and initiation of, struggle. Write me a novel about how to infiltrate the FBI and destroy it. Write me poems that say more than that you are Black and beautiful. Perform dances with guns to legitimatize guns as a weapon of struggle. If you examine any country that has undergone successful revolution, you will find that the cultural revolution has never come before actual armed confrontation, never before a contest for power was waged.
H. Rap Brown
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@Dukuzumurenyi, what are your thoughts on this quote now that all the neo-colonial Berlin fragments have ostensible political flag independence?
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"The entire American economy is based on white supremacy. Even the religious philosophies, in essence, is white supremacy. A white Jesus. A white Virgin. White angels. White everything. But a black Devil, of course. The "Uncle Sam" political foundation is based on white supremacy, relegating nonwhites to second−class citizenship. It goes without saying that the social philosophy is strictly white supremacist. And the educational system perpetuates white supremacy.” [Mhenga Malcolm X]
"The entire American economy is based on white supremacy. Even the religious philosophies, in essence, is white supremacy. A white Jesus. A white Virgin. White angels. White everything. But a black Devil, of course. The "Uncle Sam" political foundation is based on white supremacy, relegating nonwhites to second−class citizenship. It goes without saying that the social philosophy is strictly white supremacist. And the educational system perpetuates white supremacy." [Mhenga Malcolm X]
'From a very young age, we were very highly politicized -- 'this is why you're here,' 'this is what you're for.' And it actually felt as if we were just toy soldiers. Like they were building us up just in case they all die -- 'okay, if we all die, then you guys will take over,' kind of thing. So from a very young age it was very clear: 'this is your mission. You are born and built and bred for the struggle -- the struggle for a free South Kmt.' ~Shaka Sisulu, Walter Sisulu's grandson, in an interview with DJ Sbu
'From a very young age, we were very highly politicized -- 'this is why you're here,' 'this is what you're for.' And it actually felt as if we were just toy soldiers. Like they were building us up just in case they all die -- 'okay, if we all die, then you guys will take over,' kind of thing. So from a very young age it was very clear: 'this is your mission. You are born and built and bread for the struggle -- the struggle for a free South Kmt.' ~Shaka Sisulu, Walter Sisulu's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sisulu) grandson, in an interview with DJ Sbu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdCwI7FNsk)
'. . . Let this be our cry: "Anathama to the French name! Eternal hatred of France!"'
~Haitian Declaration of Independence
*"In a world of wolves, one should go armed, and one of the most defensive weapons within in reach of the Negro is the practice of 'Race First' in all parts of the world".
TRH Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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White Folks Should Never Be Comfortable At A Black Revolutionary Meeting
"There must be some place where white folks can't come. If they came in here, if they can sit under the fire that I will put on their behinds, they're welcome. But when they come, I ain't changing nothing for them. If anything, it's gone get hotter and hotter because I got examples to point to, sitting in the audience. Many times I tune right in on them. 'Look at that old ugly beast sitting there, I say. Look at the way he's squirming.' White folks I say should NEVER be able to come into a Black Revolutionary Meeting and be comfortable. They shouldn't be comfortable, they should be uncomfortable. So I'm that one."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"The first act of murdering our people was wrong. When we retaliate in self-defense, that's right. That's not two wrongs. If the white man does not agree with that then why is he always sending his troops all over the world to retaliate? Huh? Get a mandate from Congress; Supreme Court and everybody backs it up."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "At The Cross Roads of My Life")
Are You Willing to Kill To Be Free?
"I'm willing to live my life for the rise - the resurrection of our people and when I can no longer live my life than I'm willing to take life and give my life. I'm not just willing to die. I'm willing to KILL! It's one thing to be willing to die, but are you willing to kill to be free. Hell anybody can die. But, can you kill?"
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "At The Cross Roads of My Life")
I Gotta Fight
"I gotta fight. If I die, so god damn what! If I get killed, so god damn what! I'm a soldier. You say, "But you got shot," soldiers get shot fool. "But they can kill you." Soldiers die! In every war there are caunited snakeslities and fatalities. Praise be to the God that I'm a caunited snakeslity though it wasn't too damn caunited snakesl. But I'm not a fatality."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "At The Cross Roads of My Life")
"Every slave must dream of confrontation with the enemy."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "The God Damn White Man")
I am a Separatist
"I don't give two cents for the politics of the white man. I still not only believe that the white man is the devil but, I believe in separation and independence... I'm not embarrassed. I'm not ashamed to say that I am a separatist. I have a right to be a separatist. I have a right to want freedom and independence. I have a right to want not a party of my own, but a nation of my own. I'm a separatist. I want a flag of our own. I want some land of our own. I want our own rules - our own regulations."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "At The Cross Roads of My Life")
The White Man is the God Damn Devil
"I'm at the crossroads in my life, but there are things that I cannot forget, and I cannot put down. I believe with all of my heart that the WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL! And I must teach that he is the devil; I cannot back down from that...Whether you like me or not-Whether you accept me or not-Whether you condemn me or not-Whether you suspend me or not- THE GOD DAMN WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL, AND I WILL TEACH IT FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE!!! Always teach it because I know that you are a fickle people. I know that you are a flip flop wishy-washy people. I know that you are a different strokes for different folks but its different ways on different days. Oh yes you are. God damn it if somebody don't continue to remind you, you'll try to walk into the slave theater with Susie Wonrinkle on your arm."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "At The Cross Roads of My Life")
"I want you to understand that the problems that we face as a people they stem from the condition that white people have put us in. We can't dwell on that though. We must get up now and do something for ourselves to get out this condition. Because, the white man can't continue to rule us, if we will not allow him too.."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "The God Damn White Man")
Cave Man & Cave Woman
"For 2,000 years the white man and white woman lived in the caves and hills of eureurasia-roped-bounded -confined in eureurasia, living worse than in the Dark Ages. He did his number 1 in the cave; you know what number 1 is. He did his number 2 in the caves too... So for 2,000 years in that same cave, he did his number 1. For 2,000 years in that same cave, he did his number 2. Can you image walking around in your number 1 and your number 2 generation after generation? Can you image not just walking around in your number 2, but can you image lying down to go to sleep every night right there in your urination and your defecation. That's what they did for 2,000 years in the caves and hills of eureurasia....And today they still like their meat raw."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad (Taken From Speech: "The God Damn White Man")
Appearance on Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue: "Is Jesse Jackson a boot-licking homogenized nigger?"
Dr. Khallid Muhammad: "To the best of his ability? I believe he tries every day."
"The Ol Hooked-nosed – Bagel eating – Lox eating – imposter – perpetrating the fraud- Johnny come lately, - just crawled out of the caves and hills of eureurasia – wanna-be Jew."
- Dr. Khallid Muhammad
On Ice Cube
Black People who pretended to be close to me started running from me. Ice Cube started melting on me. These Negros who play hard- pretend they gangsters, but when the real gangster, the cracker, comes on the scene, they punk out. Scared to do an album with me now. Scared of what the whites folks gonna say. What the jews gonna say. On his video, some of you seen it on T.V...He say something bout "I put my gat in your mouth or my gun in your mouth and make you vomit. I'm down with Khalid Abdul Muhammad." But when it's time to be down with Khalid Muhammad- shot in both legs-assassination attempt against his life, ain't no God damn Ice Cube near where to be found; he's melting somewhere on the sidelines. Punk!
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
There must be the white man and Amerikkka's demise if we are to rise. Stop talking about it's the system. You got Negros [saying] "it's the system." "If we can just change the system." ... "Lord child Lord Jesus it's the system." That's like a damn fool walking around talking about, "it ain't the spider it's the spider web"... "If we can just tear the spider web down, everything I'll be alright." Well Damn fool don't you know if you tear the white spider web down and don't deal with the spider that the spider is gonna weave another web, as soon as you tear that one down. It's not the system; it's not the spider web. It's the white spider! It's the white man!
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I can't tone down. I tried to tone down. God didn't make me to tone down. I can't tone down. I can't bow down. I can't sit down. I can't give up. I can't shut up. God damn it, I must stand up and deal with this cracker."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
On Political Prisoners
"We must not only call but we must stand tall to free all Black Political Prisoners. We're not just gonna call for it. But, there must be a time and a generation that will rise up, that will not just march, will not just protest, but stand up millions strong, and bomb rush this cracker; and take our political prisoner from this no good low down dirty white man."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"The Democratic Party is not the solution. The Republican Party is not the solution. A future in white Amerikkka is not the solution. There is no magical white man that's going to be born that's gonna have such a miraculous change of heart that he's going to free you."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Revolutionary Mothers
Whatever you do be a revolutionary. You say "I'm just a mother." You're not just a mother. You hold the future of the revolution in your arms. You hold the future of the revolution of your people close to your breast, close to your bosom. Be a revolutionary mother, put revolutionary thoughts and ideas whisper it in the ear of your baby. Sing revolutionary lullabies to your baby.
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
The White Man Has Changed
"You say the white man has changed. And I agree, the white man has changed. The bastard has gotten worse... We have more reason to be militant today than ever."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Critcized By the Original Panthers
New Black Panther Party for self-defense being criticized by narrow negro nationalist and tired worn-out revolutionaries. Who again, have either given up, shell-shocked, or they are battle fatigue or they just sold out. Damn niggaz suing us. In Texas, some original panthers sued the New Black Panther Party. Here the nigga ain't said Panther in 30 years. Nigga don't wear nothing Panther in 30 years. Nigga don't even call the white man the devil, the pig, the cracker, the peckerwood, the honky, you don't call him nothing. You don't even stick his tongue out at the devil any more. You don't do nothing at the devil no more. Then you see some young brothers and sisters, you see new blood inspired by what you did. You made us New Black Panthers. You laid the foundation for us. You woke us up. You inspired us. And, God Damn it we're not gonna let go down the tube what you set up in the 60's and in the 70s. We are the New Black Panther Party and we're here to stay.
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
White Man Has A Bigger Gun
When you talking about picking up the gun. "We can't pick up the gun, the white man has a bigger gun." Well, yeah. He may have a bigger gun, but that's no reason for you not to stand up in self-defense and fight for your freedom and independence. And take your God and your gun...to fight this cracker. You say, "No it's really economics..." But, fool I can say to you, if you got a dollar the white man got a bigger dollar. He prints the dollar. He got the machine for the dollar. Huh. Some of you say, "it's edu-maction. edu-maction is gonna get us free, not the gun. We need to study. We need more books. We need edu-maction." Well if you got a book fool, the white man got a bigger book. The white man makes the books. The white man prints the books. Every little weak excuse, you come up with the man is in control. But when you are a revolutionary, when you are a gorilla, when you are one who understands that your enemy has the upper hand but, you use whatever your enemy has like David did a sling shot. And, once he struck Goliath in the head, then, he took Goliath own weapon and chopped his damn head off with it.
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Learn Kmtyw Languages
"You must learn Kmtyw tongue; Kmtyw languages. You can't always speak English. How the hell you gonna get free, when your thoughts and talks of getting free is in a slave or colonial language. That means you can't even think a free thought completely because it's tainted by the colonial master's mind. It's tainted by the slave master's mind. So you must learn to speak the languages of Kmt."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Slave Name
"If you are not willing to get rid of the white man's name, and take on a free name a liberated name; then, God damn it, there ain't no revolution." You cannot be an Kmtyw Scholar, you cannot be a Black Scholar and still wear the white man's name though you Claim you know the history of this cracker. Even though you claim you know the history of your people, you must get rid of the white's man name. Give the cracker his name back. These are slave names ... and as long as you wear a slave name, then you got to be a slave to a certain degree."
Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"You can't wage a revolution if you believe that you are Amerikkkan. How in the hell you gonna go backwards and wage a revolution?"
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"If you don't have a form of self-defensive, a fool will take whatever you develop from you. So, defense and development must go hand and hand."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"Aint no white jews ever been in bondage in Black Egypt. That's a damn lie. You never been in bondage for 400 years. That's why they call us Kemetic. That's why they call us the Kemites. That's why you named us Egyptian. Black -burnt skin. We are dominate –strong. You are recessive – weak. If you spent 400 years among us, we wouldn't even be able to recognize you now. We would have swallowed you up and annihilate you."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I don't believe in the pie in the sky and the sweet bye and bye after, I die. I believe in something sound on the ground while I'm still around."
- Dr. Khallid Muhammad
"You a lie, Dr. King didn't have no nonviolent marches. Dr. King was the only one nonviolent. The white man was never Non-Violent."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
On Reparations
"Let's not just have a narrow concept of just how we can get some money in our pockets. Give us the reparations money. White man 'll give it to us today and have it back tomorrow. He'll make a special reparations Lexus. He'll make a Lexus reparations edition. Get all your reparations money and then you have to pay $700 a month and you still wouldn't have enough money."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"The New Black Panther Party leans heavily toward Afrocentrism and Kmt Root and even in the study of revolution. We study Kmtyw Revolution. I'm not going to put down one cracker, a capitalist cracker, and pick up a communist cracker. A cracker is a cracker is a cracker."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
I pray that God will kill my enemies, every day. See a brother walking and a sister walking with white folks, they don't know what I am saying. I say to the Brother and Sister "God Bless You." And to the cracker I say, "God Blast You."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Question of Class
If it's a class problem, wherever the Black White dynamic exist, then the white is the upper class and the black is the lower class. And your lower class is much lower than white folks lower class. And your upper class aint nowhere near the top of the white upper class. If you are a communist, the white communist is on top the Black communist is on the bottom. If you are socialist, the white socialist is on top, the Black socialist is on the bottom. If you are Christian, the white Christian is on top the Black Christian is on the bottom. If you a Jew or Hebrew, the white Jew on top, the Black jew is on the bottom. If you a Muslim the white Muslim is on top the Black Muslim is on the bottom. Whatever the social, political, economic, academic, religious, spiritual, system or order is. Wherever the Black White dynamic exist you'll find the white on top and the Black on the bottom.
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"Our holocaust, the Kmtyw holocaust, the black holocaust is over 100 times worse than the impostor Jews, so called holocaust. They are out of their ghettos. They are out of the ghettos of eureurasia. We are still in the ghettos in the hells of north Amerikkka."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
On Reparations
"We must have yes, money. We must have precious metals, yes. We must have land, yes. But we must have our names, our language, our religion, our culture, our God, our folkways, our mores, our norms. We must get back the power of our own being. And then we can't leave this out – Then, it must be an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and a limb for a limb, and a God Damn life for a God Damn life."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
On Farrakhan's "Million Man's March" Atonement Speech
"Oh dear Father have you forgotten the lesson. The Lesson said emphatically No. Said all of the prophets have tried and none of them were successful. Who do you think you are – that God has come to destroy this God Damn Bastard, and you would get in the way to try to save this bastard? Hell No! Hell No! You'll get in the way of God's wrath."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I have waded through the blood of an assassination attempt. I have sat in the hole and in the dungeons of the white man's prison. I have stood up against the most awesome crackers of the world. The white house against me, the senate against me, the congress against me, the governor, the mayor, the police, the army, the navy, the air force, the FBI, the CIA. GOD DAMN IT, I don't fear nothing but God himself. Only God and God Alone."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"There's no manner to fight an enemy like this. You fight him with everything you got."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I'm comfortable uncompromising."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
Reparations
"Our ancestors, who have gone on to the realm of the Egungun, would turn over in their graves, metaphorically speaking, And, that's really cheap talk for the ancestors, if they knew that all we wanted was some worthless paper with some dead pecker-wood president's picture on it."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"We must free our minds, free our spirits , free our souls, but don't forget to free your behind."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"You must go in the bible with a proper understanding; otherwise, you'll go in a fool and come out an even bigger fool."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"Before the coming of the white man we didn't have to deal with a book to give us our morality. We didn't have to deal with a bible. The bible comes within a 6,000 year span. The Quran comes in a 6,000 year span. You think we the original man and the original woman had to wait until 6,000 years ago for some prophet Muhammad...I beg your pardon...We didn't have to wait for these books. We didn't go in a church. We didn't go into a temple... We didn't have to go in any of those places. Our every actions, our every heart beat, our every pulse beat was a prayer in harmony in line with the divine universal order. Talk Black To Me."
- Dr. Khalid Muhammad
"When white folks can't defeat you they'll always find some Negro—some boot-licking, butt-licking, buck-dancing, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized nigger—that they can trot out in front of you."
- Dr. Khallid Muhammad
"I didn't come to Kean College to tip toe through the tulips. I didn't come to Kean College to Pussyfoot. I didn't come to Kean College to dillydally—to beat around the bush. I didn't come to pin the tail on the donkey, I came to pin the tail on the honkey."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"The problem isn't with the crack, ... the problem is with the cracker."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
"The Pope apologized." That's not enough. Did he pay reparations? Did he raise up his dress and let us see those altar boys hiding under there? He's not the Pope of Rome he's the Punk of Rome.
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I believe in God and the Gun. And I believe he will bless me to shoot straight."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
We can't be racist
"Racism is everywhere and it's institutionalized. We cannot really be racist because racism is prejudice plus power. Nothing I say here or anywhere in the world will impact any white folks on the job, in politics, in economics, in housing; in the society, we don't have the power to do that. So we cannot be racist."
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I tried to separate Hitler as a freak of nature from the rest of white people, but after all that we have gone through, I know that there's a little bit of Hitler in all white people."
- Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"I believe the white man is absolutely disagreeable to live with in peace and no one been able to get along with him nowhere on the face, 196,940,000 miles, of the planet earth"
-Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad
"Whoever prescribes the diameter of your learning controls the circumference of your activity."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
"If I slip on a bar of soap in the shower, goddammit, the white man did it!?"
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
The Nature of Revolution
"I hate to hear a black man say, "We outnumbered. He got more guns than we got." Ahh Black Woman you in trouble when you got a man talking like that. You mean to tell me that your woman is in a house being raped by 20 men, and they got 20 guns. And, you ain't got but one gun. And, you just gonna go and cry and leave her in there being abused and misused, and say "they got more guns than I got. I can't go in there." If you got a man like that, God damn it you ain't got no man. You might as well get rid of him. You ain't got no man. A real man is gotta face it. A real man is gotta determine the strategy for going in there and getting his woman out and taking some of the enemy out. That's a real man. And, if it comes down to it, a real man is willing to give his life for his women, and his children, and his people, and his nation. If necessary a real man, if it comes down to it and he can't get her out, it's the nature of revolution, a real man is willing to blow up the whole god damn house. And say "You got her. I love her. But all of you will die. You won't do another Black Woman like that."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
The Price For Freedom
"This cracker is a punk. This cracker is a sissy. This cracker bombs black churches and kills Black Babies and attacks unarmed handcuffed Black Men and Women. What would this cracker do if you stood up and fought this cracker. If you stood up and fought this cracker! Yes, we'll lose some lives. Damn it I might be the first to die, but so what. It's the price of Freedom. You just wanna to quote freedom. You just wanna to talk revolution. But you don't wanna walk the walk when it's time to walk the walk."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
Get Out of Town By Sun Down
"... if they don't get out of town, we kill the Men, we kill the Women, we kill the children, we kill the babies, we kill the blind, we kill the cripple, we kill the crazy, we kill the faggot, we kill the lesbian. I said God damn it we kill 'em all. He said, why kill them all? Why kill the women? First, why kill the babies they're just little innocent blue eyed babies? Because God Damn it they're going grow up one day to rule your babies. Kill 'em now! Why kill the women in South Kmt? I said kill the women because the women are the military manufacturing center and every 9 months they lay down on their backs and reinforcement rolls out from between their legs. So shut down the military manufacturing center by killing the white woman. Why kill the elder cracker. The old crepy crackers in South Kmt. How the hell do you think they got old. They got old from oppressing and killing black people...After you kill them all... I said then you go to the god damn grave and dig 'em up and then kill em a god damn 'gen because they didn't die hard enough. And if you don't have the strength to dig 'em up after you've done all that work, just go to the grave and shoot in the damn grave. Kill em again because they didn't die hard enough."
-Dr. Khallid Muhammad
''To win any struggle for liberation, you have to have the way as well as the will, an overall ideology and strategy that stem from a scientific analysis of history and present conditions.''
- Assata, Assata Shakur
The education that a Black college student gets will be irrelevant, fruitless and worthless unless he uses it to define and articulate positions that are relevant to Black people
- H. Rap Brown (Die Nigger DIe)
When the people cannot find a redress of their grievances within a system, they have no choice but to destroy the system which is responsible in the first place for their grievances.
-H. Rap Brown (Die Nigger Die)
Anything you don't control is a weapon against you.
- H. Rap Brown (Die Nigger Die)
Every Black person belongs to the movement, whether he's been on demonstration or not. The lives of Black people are political, because Black people carry on a constant war against "the man"
- H Rap Brown
Segregation was the problem and the elimination of segregation was the solution, not integration.
-H Rap Brown
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more. - Eric Williams
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more. - Eric William
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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
Amilcar Cabral
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"We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn."
Nana Amilcar Cabral