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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us…There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”

“I juxtapose my business mind with my spirit/ What? I’m just supposed to keep you comfortable with the lyrics?” – Talib Kweli City Playgrounds on Revolutions Per Minute

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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From Marianne Williamsons - A Return to Love - Reflections on the principles of a course in Miracles Courtesy of RS1 on Jango

addismusikainmyheart:

Brief Historical Outline of “Black August”

A sampling of this month of “righteous rebellion” and “racist repression” includes:

• The first Afrikans were brought to Jamestown as slaves in August of 1619.
• Gabriel Prosser’s slave rebellion occurred on August 30th, 1800.
• The “Prophet” Nat Turner planned and executed a slave rebellion that commenced on August 21, 1831.
• In 1843, Henry Highland Garnett called a general slave strike on August 22.
• The Underground Railroad was started on August 2, 1850.
• The March on Washington occurred in August of 1963
• The Watts rebellions were in August of 1965.
• On August 18, 1971 the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) was raided by Mississippi police and FBI agents.
• The MOVE family was bombed by Philadelphia police on August 8, 1978.

Further, August is a time of birth.

• Dr. Mutulu Shakur (New Afrikan prisoner of war),
• Pan-Africanist Leader Marcus Garvey,
•  Maroon Russell Shoatz (political prisoner) and
• Chicago Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton were born in August.

August is also a time of transition and rebirth. The great scholar and educator W.E.B. Dubois died in Ghana on August 27, 1963. So, August is a month during which New Afrikans can reflect on our current situation and our struggle for self-determination and freedom. (http://mxgm.org/blackaugust/blackaugust-history/)

nonaj:

Article Excerpt:

The concept, Black August, grew out of the need to expose to the light of day the glorious and heroic deeds of those Afrikan women and men who recognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon people of color on a daily basis in America.

… I realized a lot of my AA friends aren’t familiar with this. Huh…

“The ability to ‘read’ a medium means you can access materials and tools created by others. The ability to ‘write’ in a medium means you can generate materials and tools for others. You must have both to be literate.”

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—Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists,

Therefore, national liberation takes place when, and only when, national productive forces are completely free of all kinds of foreign domination. The liberation of productive forces and consequently the ability to determine the mode of production most appropriate to the evolution of the liberated people, necessarily opens up new prospects for the cultural development of the society in question, by returning to that society all its capacity to create progress.

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.

[Edward] Said articulates a vision of the intellectual “as exile and marginal, as amateur, and as the author of a language that tries to speak truth to power,” by “bearing witness” to forgotten, ignored, or suppressed stories.

Although some intellectuals may and attempt to gain acceptance and recognition in contemporary society, according to Edward Said this has been virtually impossible: the

…real or “true” intellectual is therefore always an outsider, living in self-imposed exile and on the margins of society.

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Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said

Intellectual. (2009, September 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:54, September 19, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intellectual&oldid=314865135

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