(1). CONTROL
“To control of people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.“
(2). RACISM
“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now – is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticize for loving ourselves. And why people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
(3). EFFECTS OF SLAVERY
“It’s time for black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. Africans in the Americas must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.“
(4). BEING BLACK
“To be Black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are Black and powerful.”
(5). RESTORING HISTORY
“If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn’t go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn’t do that either. People don’t beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.“
(6). RELIGION
“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the handmaiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.“
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