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Power is not Sinful; Power is not Taboo

We’re going to talk about African-centered consciousness, personality and culture as instruments of power. Because, ultimately, this is what this whole liberation struggle is about: POWER. To a great extent, the problems that we are confronted with today as African people and African people in the Diaspora flows from our powerlessness, or our inappropriate use of power. We’ve been made to think that power is sinful, that power is taboo and that to pursue it is a sinful pursuit.

But you cannot exist without power. Without power there is no life. You need power to act, to live in this world. And consequently then, we must interpret what we are about in terms of power. And we have the power, ladies and gentlemen. We have the possibilities. We just need to reorganize ourselves. We need to organize our consciousness and our personalities and our culture and see them as instruments of power, and use them as instruments of power to transform our situation and our lives. So do not look at consciousness as some form of abstraction.

-The Great, The Honorable Nana Amos N. Wilson