Mwariama Sankara
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“Either we see ourselves as members of a family, that is an ethnic family, or we do not. Families nurture, socialize, and protect their members. Either the family is structured and stable for power or it is not. Either the family has a functioning network or it does not. Either the family has a vision of the future or it does not. Either the…
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“A man who succeeds in making a group of people accept a foreign concept in which he is expert makes them perpetual students whose progress in the particular field can only be evaluated by him; the student must constantly turn to him for guidance and promotion.
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“So long as the Negro continues to borrow culture produced by white men, so long will he be inferior. The Negro must enter the field of production.”
Marcus Garvey
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When a Man Loves Woman.
“Dangerfield Newby, quite literally, died for love. The free black Virginian had raised enough money to buy his wife out of slavery, but her master either pushed up the price or turned him down. Meanwhile, Newby, a blacksmith with a smoldering temper, had received a letter from his wife, Harriet, begging him to rescue…
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“Life is an important function. It was given for the purpose of expression. The flower expresses itself through the beauty of its bloom. The vine expresses itself through its rambling search in settling its own peculiar nature. The tree expresses itself in its smiling green leaves, shaking branches and sometimes hanging fruit. The lark expresses…
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