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.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
“with freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde
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nomad manifesto: an affirmation and a tribute ›
my mother and father are both feminists. they would never call themselves feminists, but they both are. the way they love each other makes me ache. makes me realize that i have a bad habit of not realizing my own worth. not realizing that i deserve to be happy and loved. makes me realize…
… and it’s not.
Join the conversation! @RiseAfrica
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Colonialism began with conquest and is today maintained by a settler administration created out of the doctrine of cultural hierarchy, a hierarchy in which European Americans and whiteness dominate non-European Americans and darkness. As a result, we live in a country where race prejudice, in the words of Fanon, obeys a flawless logic. For, after all, if inferior peoples must be exterminated, their cultures and habits of life, their languages and customs, their economies, indeed, every difference about them must be assaulted, confined, and obliterated. There must be a dominant culture and therefore a dominant people, a dominant religion, a dominant language, a dominant legal system, a dominant educational system, and so on, and so on. In other words, there must be dominance and subordination.
In a colonialist country such as the United States, white hegemony delineates this hierarchy. Thus, white people are the dominant group. Christianity is the dominant religion, capitalism is the dominant economy, militarism is the dominant form of diplomacy and the force underlying international relations. Violence is thus normal, and race prejudice, like race violence, is as American as apple pie.
Haunani-Kay Trask, from “The Color of Violence” (via hypocrite-lecteur)
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Black Documentaries On YouTube (In Full) ›
I wanted to watch the “Black In Latin America” series and I discovered this YouTube channel that has over 30 black documentaries in full.
Shouts to njdirtygardener.
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“One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.” - Amilcar Cabral, assassinated on 20 January 1973 by Portuguese forces
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. Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories (1969)
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“Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.” - Dr. Kwame Toure (He was always dropping science - RIP*)
“The fact is that what must be abolished is not the black community, but the dependent colonial status that has been inflicted upon it. The racial and cultural personality of the black community must be preserved and the community must win its freedom while preserving its cultural integrity. This is the essential difference between integration as it is currently practised and the concept of Black Power.”
| Stokely Carmichael
Smooooooth….
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Amina
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own creative genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. 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 own minds. Mind creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have through the creation of our own minds. - The Hon. M.G
