Scholarship of Okunini Asa Hilliard
Nana Asa Hilliard, III, PhD, was born in Galveston, Texas, on Aug. 22, 1933. He attended the University... View more
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Cultural surrender or cultural destruction leads inevitably to the loss of any possibility for a group to mobilize on its own behalf. There can be no African American family in the absence of a cultural base. There is no culture of minority numbers, nor is there a culture of an oppressed group, or a culture of poverty. Those who accept…
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
The culturally grounded person is a creator. The culturally dependent person is a mere spectator, a receptacle for the creativities of others. To demand freedom from slavery only to use that freedom to commit one’s self to a voluntary cultural servitude is to lose the chance to be human.
-Asa Hilliard, The Maroon Within Us
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