Knowledge versus Knowing
There is a big difference between knowledge and knowing. Knowledge is an intellectual process. Knowing is an ownership process. We can obtain knowledge and know that it is truth, but until that knowledge is continuously forged in action, we will never own it. Move from knowledge to knowing!
- Anonymous
Nothing Is More Dangerous To A System That Depends On Mis-information Than A Voice That Obeys It’s Own Dictates and Has TheCourage To Speak Out.
- Queen Mother
There are many who won't allow the real factors in life to catch hold of their conscious state of existence. They seek an easy form oflife that require little involvement or participation. Leaving their conscious state of existence in the hands of others, who more thenlikely have no interest in whether they exist.
African Consciousness: Implies that you are fully aware of who and what you are and your situation as it relates to the world thus onewould conclude that this awareness would yield actions that are complementary to your situation i.e. improving a bad situation ormaintaining a good one. One who subscribes and practices thoughts and deeds, which promotes unity among people of Africandescent. Being African conscious we also know that we are not the ethnically, so-called racially, cultural, social or political"opposites" of any other human beings. We are open minded enough to stay aware of the ministers of propaganda and socialconditioning that is handed down to the masses through the media and government at large.
I believe in economic, social and political power withoutindoctrinated social controls to keep me in the same condition.
I believe we should supply our own enthusiasm, excitement,anticipation, hopefulness and eagerness. To me this is the only way to live life in a complete and well-rounded fashion.
Strong, uninhibited, progressive, critical thinking is paramount tobuilding better communities. The idea is to create a lasting self-nurturing permanence in the lives of people of African descent.
"Colonialism is not satisfied merely with hiding
a people in its grip and emptying the native's
brain of all form and content. By a kind of
perverted logic, it turns to the past of the
oppressed people, and distorts,
disfigures and destroys it."
- Frantz Fanon, On National Culture Colonial
Discourse and Post-colonial Theory
"Three things cannot be hidden for long:
the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- HoneyB
"To manipulate an image is to control
a peoplehood. Zero image has for a long
time meant the repression of our peoplehood."
- Carolyn Gerald
"My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children."
- Hosea 4:6.
"In my music, my plays, my films, I want
to carry always this central idea:
to be African."
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