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"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary"
Carter G. Woodson


SANKOFA
Literally translated it means "it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot".

"Sankofa" teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated.

Visually and symbolically "Sankofa" is expressed as a mythic bird that flies forward while looking backward with an egg (symbolizing the future) in its mouth.

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker


It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

"I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger".-Harriet Tubman

"If there is no struggle,there is no progress"-Frederick Douglas

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
--Nelson Mandela, 1953


Martin Luther King - "A man can not ride your back if it is not bent over"

Heraclitus- "Nothing endures but change"

"Studying without thinking is wasteful. Thinking without studying is Dangerous" - Confucius


Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
~Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks

Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us .... This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.
Frederick Douglas, July 4, 1852

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