Africa Wisdom Quotes

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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
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A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.
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Karen Blixen (Out of Africa)
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My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.
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Megan Miranda (Vengeance (Fracture, #2))
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If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.
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Malidoma Patrice SomΓ© (The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community)
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He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place.
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Alexander McCall Smith (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1))
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In the biological sense, race does not exist.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana (The Use and Misuse of Children)
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When I see memories, I see the past. When I see thoughts, I see the present. When I see intentions, I see the future. When I see regret, I see the past. When I see hope, I see the present. When I see expectation, I see the future. When I see habits, I see the past. When I see actions, I see the present. When I see character, I see the future. When I see karma, I see the past. When I see chance, I see the present. When I see destiny, I see the future. When I see knowledge, I see the past. When I see understanding, I see the present. When I see wisdom, I see the future. When I see elders, I see the past. When I see adults, I see the present. When I see children, I see the future.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. From a response to an offer of conditional freedom,Β read by Zindzi Mandela at a rally, Jabulani Stadium,Β Soweto, South Africa,
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Nelson Mandela (Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom)
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I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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UBUNTU - I am because we are, and because we are, you are.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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I am fortitude,” said faith. β€œI am contentment,” said peace. β€œI am delight,” said joy. β€œI am goodness,” said virtue. β€œI am God,” said love. β€œI am truth,” said knowledge. β€œI am sight,” said understanding. β€œI am perception,” said intelligence. β€œI am prudence,” said wisdom. β€œI am awareness,” said enlightenment. β€œI am success,” said excellence. β€œI am mastery,” said discipline. β€œI am persistence,” said focus. β€œI am influence,” said action. β€œI am character,” said destiny.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
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Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1))
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Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.
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Anonymous
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Truth is straight. Ignorance is narrow. Knowledge is wide. Wisdom is high. Contentment is straight. Lust is narrow. Peace is wide. Joy is high. Humility is straight. Ego is narrow. Grace is wide. Meekness is high. Faith is straight. Envy is narrow. Hope is wide. Love is high.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If they hate your race, pardon them. If they hate your religion, enlighten them. If they hate your gender, admonish them. If they hate your class, avoid them. If they hate your politics, debate them. If they hate your culture, question them. If they hate your tribe, confront them. If they hate your ancestry, defy them. If they hate your age, outshine them. If they hate your appearance, disregard them. If they love you for your knowledge, teach them. If they love you for your wisdom, counsel them. If they love you for your understanding, instruct them. If they love you for your intuition, guide them. If they love you for your excellence, inspire them. If they love you for your humility, honor them. If they love you for your compassion, welcome them. If they love you for your honesty, value them. If they love you for your kindness, treasure them. If they love you for your virtue, cherish them.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your mind is a paintbrush, your imagination is a canvass, and your thoughts are your masterpiece. Your heart is a paintbrush, your desires are a canvass, and your actions are your masterpiece. Your soul is a paintbrush, your world is a canvass, and your life is your masterpiece.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I believe the most difficult situation to be in, is one of mind-game-playing. Interestingly enough, it can be observed that it’s those from the most prosperous countries that tend to play the most mind-games with other people. They even write things about it. Why is it very difficult to be honest and transparent about what one thinks and feels? Why must one resort to manipulations and mind-mockery and mimicry? It is such a sad situation or state for any person to be in. Living in cubicle within cubicle within cubicle of themselves. Victims and perpetrators of mind games, interestingly, are the most paranoid about it happening to themβ€” because they do it, they think everyone else does it too. Or because it’s been done to them, they think everyone will do it to them. Why cannot people say what they think, think what they say, say what they mean and mean what they say? The world would be happier if we were all just living out in a big plain in Africa! Roaming with animals, walking barefoot, being simple, transparent, real...
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C. JoyBell C.
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I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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Everyone must be given the opportunity to think, read and write.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Needs crawls. Want walks. Desire runs. Lust sprints. Love soars. Peace crawls. Pleasure walks. Excitement runs. Happiness sprints. Joy soars. Doubt crawls. Expectation walks. Hope runs. Courage sprints. Faith soars. Skill crawls. Talent walks. Excellence runs. Brilliance sprints. Genius soars. Intelligence crawls. Insight walks. Understanding runs. Wisdom sprints. Enlightenment soars.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth said, β€œI am your brother.” Understanding said, β€œI am your sister.” Knowledge said, β€œI am your father.” Wisdom said, β€œI am your mother.” Shallowness said, β€œI am your rival.” Ignorance said, β€œI am your enemy.” Literacy said, β€œI am your adversary.” Stupidity said, β€œI am your nemesis.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Justice is the gateway to peace. Education is the gateway to equality. Patience is the gateway to tolerance. Compassion is the gateway to mercy. Certainty is the gateway to assurance. Hope is the gateway to courage. Contentment is the gateway to happiness. Integrity is the gateway to virtue. Need is the gateway to want. Laughter is the gateway to health. Pleasure is the gateway to enjoyment. Love is the gateway to joy. Life is the gateway to death. Reality is the gateway to truth. Harmony is the gateway to order. Time is the gateway to eternity. Intelligence is the gateway to wisdom. Focus is the gateway to determination. Insight is the gateway to understanding. Knowledge is the gateway to enlightenment.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.
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Brandi L. Bates (Moonshine For The Soul: A Path to Strength, Wisdom, Growth, Health & Happiness)
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We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Most humans are refugees in our countries because all our ancestors scattered across the globe from our homeland Africa.
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Abhijit Naskar (Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty)
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When we uplift others, we in turn uplift ourselves.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly. In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask: β€˜What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world.
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G.K. Chesterton (The Everlasting Man)
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There is no gem like truth, no wealth like knowledge, no treasure like understanding, and no jewel like love. There is no gem like gratitude, no wealth like humility, no treasure like patience, and no jewel like virtue, There is no gem like peace, no wealth like contentment, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like joy. There is no gem like time, no wealth like experience, no treasure like reality, and no jewel like life. There is no gem like prudence, no wealth like health, no treasure like prayer, and no jewel like meditation. There is no gem like nature, no wealth like harmony, no treasure like Heaven, and no jewel like God.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven. Love is my religion. Compassion is my priest. The world is my temple. The universe is my heaven. Truth is my religion. Conscience is my priest. Conviction is my temple. Virtue is my heaven. Freedom is my religion. Tolerance is my priest. Harmony is my temple. Peace is my heaven. Nature is my religion. Light is my priest. Time is my temple. Eternity is my heaven.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs with reduced incomes as a result of automation while the profits of the employers remain intact, and say: β€œThis is not just.” It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: β€œThis is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: β€œThis is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: β€œThis way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing to prevent us from paying adequate wages to schoolteachers, social workers and other servants of the public to insure that we have the best available personnel in these positions which are charged with the responsibility of guiding our future generations. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer. There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimumβ€”and livableβ€”income for every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from remolding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy Book 2))
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Knowledge is our gift. Understanding is our blessing. Wisdom is our fortune. Enlightenment is our reward. Art is our gift. Science is our blessing. Technology is our fortune. God is our reward. Time is our gift. Light is our blessing. Fate is our fortune. Nature is our reward. Land is our gift. Water is our blessing. Air is our fortune. Life is our reward. Mothers are our gift. Youth are our blessing. Elders are our fortune. Children are our reward. The past is our gift. The present is our blessing. The future is our fortune. Eternity is our reward. The mind is our gift. The heart is our blessing. The body is our fortune. The soul is our reward. Faith is our gift. Joy is our blessing. Virtue is our fortune. Love is our reward.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The path to ignorance is wide. The path to shallowness is smooth. The path to understanding is bumpy. The path to wisdom is narrow. The path to ignorance is steep. The path to vice is wide. The path to pleasure is smooth. The path to integrity is bumpy. The path to innocence is narrow. The path to paradise is steep. The path to fear is wide. The path to assurance is smooth. The path to hope is bumpy. The path to valor is narrow. The path to faith is steep. The path to sorrow is wide. The path to desire is smooth. The path to patience is bumpy. The path to gratitude is narrow. The path to humility is steep. The path to strife is wide. The path to indifference is smooth. The path to peace is bumpy. The path to joy is narrow. The path to harmony is steep. The path to error is wide. The path to delusion is smooth. The path to discovery is bumpy. The path to truth is narrow. The path to certainty is steep.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When I was weak, I was full of fear. When I was strong, I was full of hope. When I was a happy, I was full of peace. When I was a sad, I was full of suffering. When I was poor, I was full of gratitude. When I was rich, I was full of longing. When I was wise, I was full of grace. When I was foolish, I was full of ignorance. When I was a child, I was full of joy. When I was a youth, I was full of laughter. When I was an adult, I was full of trouble. When I was an elder, I was full of wisdom.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Ignorance says, β€œhate others.” Jealousy says, β€œhurt others.” Folly says, β€œhinder others.” Evil says, β€œharm everyone.” Intelligence says, β€œhelp yourself.” Virtue says, β€œhelp others.” Wisdom says, β€œhelp your friends.” Enlightenment says, β€œhelp everyone.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?
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Anonymous Bushman
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What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The fall of the nation, there is no; Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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At times, we need to be like the weed, which bends in the wind,' the old shaman eventually says.
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Arianna Dagnino (The Afrikaner (Essential Prose))
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Our potential should not be limited by where we are born, nor our dreams be diminished by our current circumstances.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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You are no greater than the thoughts you carry, the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish. You are no better than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome. You are no higher than the wisdom you retain, the understanding you gain, the faith you practice, and the love you give. You are no larger than the powerless you help, the poor you enrich, the weak you embolden, and the fearful you inspire. You are no bigger than the opponents you face, the alliances you broker, the battles you fight, and the enemies you defeat.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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God opens the door, light walks in. Light opens the door, love walks in. Love opens the door, the universe walks in. The universe opens the door, life walks in. Life opens the door, time walks in. Time opens the door, the past walks in. The past opens the door, the present walks in. The present opens the door, the future walks in. The future opens the door, eternity walks in. Eternity opens the door, reality walks in. Reality opens the door, truth walks in. Truth opens the door, knowledge walks in. Knowledge opens the door, wisdom walks in. Wisdom opens the door, God walks in. God opens the door, enlightenment walks in.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A black African, she should have been able to fit without difficulty into a black African society, Senegal and the Ivory Coast both having experienced the same colonial power. But Africa is diverse, divided. The same country can change its character and outlook several times over, from north to south or from east to west.
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Mariama BΓ’ (So Long a Letter)
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Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)
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Richard Preston (The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus)
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Wisdom is your mentor, never forsake it. Understanding is your guide, never ignore it. Ignorance is your enemy, never embrace it. Faith is your helper, never desert it. Hope is your confidant, never reject it. Despair is your opponent, never tolerate it. Peace is your consoler, never avoid it. Contentment is your companion, never betray it. Greed is your adversary, never accept it. Joy is your healer, never shun it. Happiness is your friend, never disown it. Envy is your antagonist, never welcome it. Love is your savior, never abandon it. Kindness is your helpmate, never oppose it. Hatred is your rival, never approve it. Virtue is your preacher, never discard it. Integrity is your accomplice, never deny it. Vice is your nemesis, never accommodate it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When Africa suffers the Middle East suffers, when the Middle East suffers Asia suffers, when Asia suffers Europe suffers, when Europe suffers America suffers, and when America suffers the world suffers. What you learn from black people you won’t learn from white people. What you learn from white people you won’t learn from black people. What you learn from one people you won’t learn from another people. What you learn from an enlightened people teach to all people.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth has one eye, understanding has two ears, knowledge has three feet, and wisdom has four hands. Truth has the world’s biggest mouth, wisdom has the world’s largest ears, love has the world’s strongest hands, and faith has the world’s ablest feet.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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There is no priest purer than virtue, no prophet greater than faith, no preacher louder than prudence, no principality higher than goodness, and no power larger than love. There is no saint warmer than mercy, no angel swifter than joy, no nurse gentler than compassion, no pleasure sweeter than excitement, and no breeze cooler than peace. There is no student brighter than knowledge, no scholar sharper than intelligence, no teacher wiser than understanding, no disciple cleverer than humility, and no master loftier than wisdom.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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To help people takes strength, to inspire people takes wisdom, to rule over them takes virtue, but to elevate them takes love. The real power of a leader is in: the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Listen to your mind, it thinks. Hear your heart, it speaks. Hearken to your soul, it knows. Listen to wisdom, it thinks. Hear understanding, it speaks. Hearken to enlightenment, it knows. Listen to your friends, they think. Hear your children, they speak. Hearken to your family, they know. Listen to your mentors, they think. Hear your teachers, they speak. Hearken to your instructors, they know. Listen to your intellect, it thinks. Hear your intuition, it speaks. Hearken to your conscience, it knows. Listen to now, it thinks. Hear before, it speaks. Hearken to later, it knows. Listen to life, it thinks. Hear time, it speaks. Hearken to eternity, it knows. Listen to nature, it thinks. Hear the world, it speaks. Hearken to the universe, it knows.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Intelligence is a disciple, wisdom is its master. Caution is a disciple, prudence is its master. Discernment is a disciple, intuition is its master. Truth is a disciple, reality is its master. Experience is a disciple, awareness is its master. Illumination is a disciple, enlightenment is its master. Desire is a disciple, pleasure is its master. Laughter is a disciple, joy is its master. Need is a disciple, want is its master. Prudence is a disciple, virtue is its master. Knowledge is a disciple, truth is its master. The heart is a disciple, the mind is its master. The mind is a disciple, the soul is its master. The body is a disciple, the flesh is its master. The soul is a disciple, the spirit is its master. The present is a disciple, the past is its master. The future is a disciple, the present is its master. The past is a disciple, eternity is its master. Mankind is a disciple, nature is its master. Eternity is a disciple, God is its master.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Silence is a temple of wisdom, stillness is a temple of joy, and harmony is a temple of love. Humility is a temple of wisdom, contentment is a temple of joy, and peace is a temple of love. Intelligence is a temple of wisdom, understanding is a temple of joy, and virtue is a temple of love. The past is a temple of wisdom, the present is a temple of joy, and the future is a temple of love. The mind is a temple of wisdom, the heart is a temple of joy, and the soul is a temple of love. The world is a temple of wisdom, the cosmos is a temple of joy, and the universe is a temple of love. Heaven is a temple of wisdom, nature is a temple of joy, and God is a temple of love.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Hao tried flagging down a couple of trucks that rumbled by. There was much cursing, and amid his frustration he ordered John to pursue one of the trucks with the pickup and cut it off. John simply sat there, nodding to the music that was playing loudly in the cab. He had either not understood the command or he had coolly decided to ignore it.
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Howard W. French (China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa)
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It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.
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Nadine Gordimer (The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer)
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African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.
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Nana Awere Damoah (I Speak of Ghana)
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The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Peace and gladness in every home is a peace for the society, nation and the world.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the 1st rule is true. The 3rd rule of logic club has never been read.
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Makuochukwu Okigbo
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As Africans we must uplift each other.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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Eyes, for reality. Ears, for truth. Hands, for work. Mouth, for thanks. Mind, for wisdom. Heart, for joy. Soul, for love. Life, for enlightenment.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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One who plants grapes by the road side, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint to another, skimming across the surface, cramming in quantity rather than quality, and comes away with his soul and imagination unchanged, untouched by the wonder of a life lived differently.
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Roxanne Reid (A Walk in the Park: Travels in and around South Africa's national parks)
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Wisdom has a mind. Joy has a heart. Love has a soul. Awareness has a mind. Discernment has a heart. Consciousness has a soul. Intention has a mind. Desire has a heart. Mindfulness has a soul. Imagination has a mind. Inspiration has a heart. Passion has a soul. Understanding has a mind. Patience has a heart. Humility has a soul. Intellect has a mind. Compassion has a heart. Goodness has a soul. Speech has a mind. Silence has a heart. Action has a soul. Nature has a mind. The world has a heart. The universe has a soul. Mankind has a mind. Angels have a heart. God has a soul.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Intellect is its thoughts. Happiness is its desires. Pleasure is its experiences. Truth is its thoughts. Awareness is its desires. Reality is its experiences. Imagination is its thoughts. Intention is its desires. Deeds are its experiences. Wisdom is its thoughts. Joy is its desires. Love is its experiences. The mind is its thoughts. The heart is its desires. The soul is its experiences. The past is its thoughts. The present is its desires. The future is its experiences. The world is its thoughts. The universe is its desires. The heavens are its experiences.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth is the eldest daughter of knowledge. Intelligence is the eldest daughter of wisdom. Perception is the eldest daughter of understanding. Exposure is the eldest daughter of awareness. Calmness is the eldest daughter of peace. Hope is the eldest daughter of faith. Charity is the eldest daughter of virtue. Humility is the eldest daughter of honor. Mercy is the eldest daughter of grace. Chastity is the eldest daughter of piety. Modesty is the eldest daughter of meekness. Desire is the eldest daughter of action. Prudence is the eldest daughter of caution. Trust is the eldest daughter of Integrity. Friendship is the eldest daughter of kindness. Tolerance is the eldest daughter of equality. Freedom is the eldest daughter of democracy. Praise is the eldest daughter of appreciation. Patience is the eldest daughter of diligence. Maturity is the eldest daughter of growth. Harmony is the eldest daughter of order. Sound is the eldest daughter of movement. Heat is the eldest daughter of motion. Acceleration is the eldest daughter of force. Experience is the eldest daughter of reality. Chance is the eldest daughter of destiny. Time is the eldest daughter of eternity.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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Truth speaks, love hears, intuition sees, prudence knows. Passion feels, patience listens, mercy notices, humanity knows. Insight perceives, intelligence understands, intellect comprehends, wisdom knows.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Light in love is joy. Light in faith is hope. Light in compassion is mercy. Light in gratitude is contentment. Light in understanding is awareness. Light in intellect is discernment. Light in certainty is conviction. Light in patience is expectation. Light in truth is discovery. Light in innocence is virtue. Light in experience is illumination. Light in consciousness is realization. Light in your world is warmth. Light in your sky is energy. Light in your universe is wisdom. Light in your yourself is virtue. Light in your mind is truth. Light in your heart is knowledge. Light in your soul is wisdom. Light in your life is God.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Knowing what to think is sense, when to think it is intelligence, how to think it is wisdom, why and how to think it is enlightenment. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. Knowing what to learn is sense, when to learn it is intelligence, how to learn it is wisdom, why and how to learn it is enlightenment. Knowing what to do is sense, when to do it is intelligence, how to do it is wisdom, why and how to do it is enlightenment. Knowing what to teach is sense, when to teach it is intelligence, how to teach it is wisdom, why and how to teach it is enlightenment.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Joy is the best companion, virtue is the noblest acquaintance, wisdom is cleverest friend, and love is the kindest soulmate. Humility is the best companion, gratitude is the noblest acquaintance, intelligence is cleverest friend, and patience is the kindest soulmate. Laughter is the best companion, contentment is the noblest acquaintance, silence is cleverest friend, and goodness is the kindest soulmate. Tolerance is the best companion, equality is the noblest acquaintance, discernment is cleverest friend, and compassion is the kindest soulmate. Freedom is the best companion, harmony is the noblest acquaintance, prudence is cleverest friend, and peace is the kindest soulmate. Truth is the best companion, discipline is the noblest acquaintance, intellect is cleverest friend, and honor is the kindest soulmate. Knowledge is the best companion, understanding is the noblest acquaintance, intuition is cleverest friend, and reason is the kindest soulmate. Faith is the best companion, expectation is the noblest acquaintance, caution is cleverest friend, and God is the kindest soulmate.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Intelligence is a tenant in the house of wisdom. Knowledge is a tenant in the house of nature. Insight is a tenant in the house of understanding. Wealth is a tenant in the house of risk. Mastery is a tenant in the house of discipline. Patience is a tenant in the house of virtue. Tolerance is a tenant in the house of freedom. Awareness is a tenant in the house of experience. Rest is a tenant in the house of sleep. Laughter is a tenant in the house of joy. Hope is a tenant in the house of faith. Contentment is a tenant in the house of peace. Kindness is a tenant in the house of love. Harmony is a tenant in the house of order. Humility is a tenant in the house of honor. Caution is a tenant in the house of prudence. Speech is a tenant in the house of silence. Certainty is a tenant in the house of conviction. Expectation is a tenant in the house of desire. Need is a tenant in the house of want. Truth is a tenant in the house of reality. Chance is a tenant in the house of fate. Time is a tenant in the house of eternity. Life is a tenant in the house of death. Nature is a tenant in the house of God.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Anger is strong, rage is mighty, wrath is powerful, but joy is invincible. Pain is strong, bitterness is mighty, despair is powerful, but hope is invincible. Doubt is strong, confusion is mighty, suspicion is powerful, but truth is invincible. Greed is strong, malice is mighty, pride is powerful, but virtue is invincible. Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible. Ignorance is strong, stupidity is mighty, folly is powerful, but wisdom is invincible. The mind is strong, the heart is mighty, the spirit is powerful, but the soul is invincible. The past is strong, the present is mighty, the future is powerful, but eternity is invincible.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The simple crawl to truth. The average walk to knowledge. The prudent run to understanding. The intelligent sprint to brilliance. The enlightened soar to wisdom. The simple crawl to laughter. The average walk to peace. The prudent run to contentment. The intelligent sprint to enjoyment. The enlightened soar to joy. The simple crawl to patience. The average walk to gratitude. The prudent run to virtue. The intelligent sprint to faith. The enlightened soar to love. The simple crawl to caution. The average walk to passion. The prudent run to discipline. The intelligent sprint to humility. The enlightened soar to excellence. The simple crawl to awareness. The average walk to reality. The prudent run to experience. The intelligent sprint to spirituality. The enlightened soar to destiny. The simple crawl to the past. The average walk to the present. The prudent run to the future. The intelligent sprint to eternity. The enlightened soar to immortality.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Greed is your opponent, pride is your enemy, envy is your adversary, contentment is your friend, and love is your helper. Ignorance is your rival, fear is your nemesis, vice is your opposition, virtue is your advocate, and wisdom is your ally.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: β€œThis is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: β€œThis is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: β€œThis way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Adam Silvera
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We have seen that psychology has accustomed us to the fact there is more to ourselves than we suspect. Like the eighteenth century European view of the earth, our minds have their own darkest Africas, their unmapped Borneos, their Amazonian basins. Their bulk continues to await exploration. Hinduism sees the mind’s hidden continents as stretching to infinity. Infinite in being, infinite in awareness, there is nothing beyond them that remains unknown. Infinite in joy, too, for there is nothing alien in them to mar their beatitude.
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Huston Smith (The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions)
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When perplexed, light appears to you in the form of truth; when troubled, in the form of reason; when sad, in the form of understanding; and when heartbroken, in the form of love. When perplexed, love appears to you in the form of friendships; when troubled, in the form of family; when sad, in the form of lovers; and when heartbroken, in the form of God. When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of patience; when sad, in the form of joy; and when heartbroken, in the form of peace.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth is an honest saint, ignorance is a helpless scholar, knowledge is a kind sage. Understanding is an honest saint, uncertainty is a helpless scholar, wisdom is a kind sage. Awareness is an honest saint, apathy is a helpless scholar, intelligence is a kind sage. Time is an honest saint, life is a helpless scholar, eternity is a kind sage. Nature is an honest saint, mankind is a helpless scholar, enlightenment is a kind sage. Hope is an honest saint, wrath is a helpless sinner, love is a kind sage. Prudence is an honest saint, greed is a helpless sinner, charity is a kind sage. Compassion is an honest saint, vengeance is a helpless sinner, forgiveness is a kind sage. Contentment is an honest saint, envy is a helpless sinner, peace is a kind sage. Virtue is an honest saint, vice is a helpless sinner, love is a kind sage.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Knowledge opens your mind, understanding opens your heart, wisdom opens your soul. Patience opens your mind, gratitude opens your heart, humility opens your soul. Contentment opens your mind, freedom opens your heart, innocence opens your soul. Pleasure opens your mind, laughter opens your heart, joy opens your soul. Intelligence opens your mind, virtue opens your heart, love opens your soul. Confidence opens your mind, hope opens your heart, faith opens your soul. Focus opens your mind, determination opens your heart, fortitude opens your soul. Thoughts open your mind, emotions open your heart, desires open your soul. Consciousness opens your mind, awareness opens your heart, experience opens your soul. Imagination opens your mind, actions open your heart, life opens your soul. Truth opens your mind, reality opens your heart, destiny opens your soul.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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give myself over to my rapture. The die is cast. Nothing I have ever felt before is like this. I tremble, my blood leaps. God has waited six thousand years for a looker-on to his work. His wisdom is infinite, that of which we are ignorant is contained in him, as well as the little that we know.
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Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass)
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Worry soils even the purest mind. Envy poisons even the purest heart. Greed sullies even the purest soul. Gratitude cleanses even the dirtiest mind. Mercy sanitizes even the dirtiest heart. Goodness purifies even the dirtiest soul. Ignorance soils even the purest mind. Hatred poisons even the purest heart. Ego sullies even the purest soul. Prudence cleanses even the dirtiest mind. Kindness sanitizes even the dirtiest heart. Humility purifies even the dirtiest soul. Corruption soils even the purest mind. Bigotry poisons even the purest heart. Injustice sullies even the purest soul. Innocence cleanses even the dirtiest mind. Grace sanitizes even the dirtiest heart. Humanity purifies even the dirtiest soul. Slander soils even the purest mind. Malice poisons even the purest heart. Wrath sullies even the purest soul. Goodwill cleanses even the dirtiest mind. Selflessness sanitizes even the dirtiest heart. Love purifies even the dirtiest soul. Idleness soils even the purest mind. Lust poisons even the purest heart. Decadence sullies even the purest soul. Wisdom cleanses even the dirtiest mind. Understanding sanitizes even the dirtiest heart. Enlightenment purifies even the dirtiest soul.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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This epic is a humble appeal to this great continent, Africa: May we reclaim our rich and resplendent narrative; our foundation, our voice, our magnitude, our honour, our pride, our wisdom, our traditions, our past, our exceptional uniqueness, our failings, our triumphs and finally when all is said and done, our glory.
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N.K. Read (Children of Saba)
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Habits determine what comes into your life, personality decides what you want in your life, and character decides what stays in your life. People determine what comes into your life, preference decides what you want in your life, and God decides what stays in your life. Fate determines what comes into your life, you decide what you want in your life, and choices decide what stays in your life. The past determines what comes into your life, the present decides what you want in your life, and the future decides what stays in your life. The mind determines what comes into your life, the heart decides what you want in your life, and the soul decides what stays in your life.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Wisdom speaks, though it does not have lips. Joy moves, though it does not have feet. Faith rises, though it does not have wings. Hope speaks, though it does not have lips. Expectation moves, though it does not have feet. Conviction rises, though it does not have wings. Need speaks, though it does not have lips. Compassion moves, though it does not have feet. Love rises, though it does not have wings. Silence speaks, though it does not have lips. Speech moves, though it does not have feet. Actions rise, though they do not have wings. Fate speaks, though it does not have lips. Chance moves, though it does not have feet. Destiny rises, though it does not have wings. Reality speaks, though it does not have lips. Desire moves, though it does not have feet. Eternity rises, though it does not have wings. Light speaks, though it does not have lips. Darkness moves, though it does not have feet. Nature rises, though it does not have wings. The past speaks, though it does not have lips. The present moves, though it does not have feet. The future rises, though it does not have wings. The world speaks, though it does not have lips. The cosmos move, though they do not have feet. The universe rises, though it does not have wings. Awareness speaks, though it does not have lips. Consciousness moves, though it does not have feet. God rises, though He does not have wings.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Time is a slave, existence is a servant, reality is a master, and eternity is queen. Fate is a slave, light is a servant, nature is a master, and immortality is king. Mankind is a slave, knowledge is a servant, wisdom is a master, and enlightenment is queen. The past is a slave, the present is a servant, the future is a master, and God is king,
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth seeks, knowledge finds. Awareness seeks, experience finds. Opinions seek, facts find. Theory seeks, certainty finds. Knowledge seeks, philosophy finds. Intelligence seeks, wisdom finds. Want seeks, need finds. Desire seeks, fulfillment finds. Contentment seeks, peace finds. Pleasure seeks, happiness finds. Laughter seeks, joy finds. Compassion seeks, mercy finds. Humility seeks, honor finds. Prudence seeks, goodness finds. Innocence seeks, freedom finds. Virtue seeks, love finds. Followers seek, leaders find. Scholars seek, sages find. Sinners seek, saints find. Religion seeks, spirituality finds. Education seeks, enlightenment finds. The mind seeks, the heart finds. The heart seeks, the soul finds. The soul seeks, the spirit finds. The spirit seeks, God finds. Reality seeks, fate finds. Experience seeks, destiny finds. Time seeks, immortality finds. The world seeks, the universe finds. The past seeks, the present finds. The present seeks, the future finds. The future seeks, eternity finds. Time seeks, eternity finds. Risk seeks, fortune finds. Peace seeks, harmony finds. Nature seeks, Heaven finds. Life seeks, Paradise finds.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Looking around today, I see a lot of young people who act as if they have all the time in the world, and older persons who think this attitude is alright. It is unfortunate that there are young citizens who still believe life begins at forty and that life before forty is non-scoring, and older citizens who still insist that unless you are old, you have nothing to offer, equating age with wisdom.
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Nana Awere Damoah (I Speak of Ghana)
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Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is your reward. Your wisdom is a gift. Your faith is a prize. Your joy is a blessing. Your love is your reward. Your skill is a gift. Your talent is a prize. Your brilliance is a blessing. Your genius is your reward. Your money is a gift. Your possessions are a prize. Your titles are a blessing. Your power is a reward.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Have you ever entered a kitchen to find a woman, her legs crossed while the rest of her body is dressed in colourful khanga, smiling at you while her hands are making a melodious song with a coconut grater? Have you ever wondered how any woman size can fit on that grater regardless of their body size? The time for wondering is over. East Africa heartily welcomes you to see for yourself. Go and visit it.
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Gloria D. Gonsalves (The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations)
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Time is the entryway to the past, the past is the doorway to the present, the present is the hallway to the future, and the future is the passageway to eternity. Reality is the entryway to awareness, awareness is the doorway to experience, experience is the hallway to truth, and truth is the passageway to knowledge. Intelligence is the entryway to insight, insight is the doorway to understanding, understanding is the hallway to wisdom, and wisdom is the passageway to enlightenment. Religion is the entryway to spirituality, spirituality is the doorway to faith, faith is the hallway to hope, and hope is the passageway to expectation. God is the entryway to light, light is the doorway to love, love is the hallway to life, and life is the passageway to existence. The soul is the entryway to the heart, the heart is the doorway to the mind, the mind is the hallway to the world, and the world is the passageway to the universe.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Truth knows the way. Knowledge sees the way. Intuition feels the way. Experience goes all the way. Wisdom knows the way. Understanding sees the way. Passion feels the way. Love goes all the way. Nature knows the way. Prudence sees the way. Compassion feels the way. Virtue goes all the way. Teachers know the way. Professors see the way. Students feel the way. Sages go all the way. Time knows the way. Fate sees the way. Chance feels the way. Destiny goes all the way.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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And a large man at the end of the table stood up and drank to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We were beginning to understand the quality of Roosevelt’s memory in the world, and the great sense of tragedy at his death. And I remembered a story that I had heard one time. Within a week of the death of Lincoln, the news of his death had penetrated even to the middle of Africa, sometimes on the drums, and sometimes carried by runners. The news traveled that a world tragedy had taken place. And it seems to us that it does not matter what the Roosevelt-haters think or say, it doesn’t even matter, actually, what Roosevelt was in the flesh. What does matter is that his name is throughout the world a symbol of wisdom, and kindness, and understanding. In the minds of little people all over the world he has ceased to be a man and has become a principle. And those men who attack him now, and attack his memory, do not hurt his name at all, but simply define themselves as the mean, the greedy, the selfish, and the stupid. Roosevelt’s name is far beyond the reach of small minds and dirty hands
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John Steinbeck (A Russian Journal)
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Yes, our social and economic circumstances shape decisions we make about all sorts of things in life, including sex. Sometimes they rob us of the power to make any decisions at all. But of all human activity, sex is among the least likely to fit neatly into the blueprint of rational decision making favoured by economists. To quote my friend Claire in Istanbul, sex is about 'conquest, fantasy, projection, infatuation, mood, anger, vanity, love, pissing off your parents, the risk of getting caught, the pleasure of cuddling afterwards, the thrill of having a secret, feeling desirable, feeling like a man, feeling like a woman, bragging to your mates the next day, getting to see what someone looks like naked and a million-and-one-other-things.' When sex isn't fun, it is often lucrative, or part of a bargain which gives you access to something you want or need. If HIV is spread by 'poverty and gender equality', how come countries that have plenty of both, such as Bangladesh, have virtually no HIV? How come South Africa and Botswana, which have the highest female literacy and per capita incomes in Africa, are awash with HIV, while countries that score low on both - such as Guinea, Somalia, Mali, and Sierra Leone - have epidemics that are negligible by comparison? How come in country after country across Africa itself, from Cameroon to Uganda to Zimbabwe and in a dozen other countries as well, HIV is lowest in the poorest households, and highest in the richest households? And how is it that in many countries, more educated women are more likely to be infested with HIV than women with no schooling? For all its cultural and political overtones, HIV is an infectious disease. Forgive me for thinking like an epidemiologist, but it seems to me that if we want to explain why there is more of it in one place than another, we should go back and take a look at the way it is spread.
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Elizabeth Pisani (The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS)
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Laughter is your acquaintance. Joy is your friend. Fear is your opponent. Love is your companion. Pleasure is your acquaintance. Discipline is your friend. Envy is your opponent. Peace is your companion. Integrity is your acquaintance. Compassion is your friend. Anger is your opponent. Humanity is your companion. Desire is your acquaintance. Contentment is your friend. Vice is your opponent. Virtue is your companion. Reality is your acquaintance. Truth is your friend. Ignorance is your opponent. Wisdom is your companion. Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Solomon never had a degree, but he mastered wisdom. David never had a degree, but he mastered warfare. Moses never had a degree, but he mastered leadership. Asaph never had a degree, but he mastered music. Ahitophel never had a degree, but he mastered common sense. Job never had a degree, but he mastered patience. Elijah never had a degree, but he mastered preaching. Daniel never had a degree, but he mastered oracles. Paul never had a degree, but he mastered theology. Jesus never had a degree, but he mastered life. Imhotep never went to university, but he built pyramids. Amenhotep never went to university, but he built schools. Thutmose never went to university, but he built pyramids. Akhenaten never went to university, but he built states. Ramses never went to university, but he built empires.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The need is not the call. This piece of wisdom has saved the lives of many a missionary, especially in Africa, where the needs are so great that they can pull you to pieces. A missionary can put out so many fires trying to meet needs around him that he suffers burnout. I have known missionary friends who said, β€œI hear the cry of lost souls calling me into the mission field.” These workers are headed for the missionary bone yard. They have responded to the call of the need rather than the call of God. We must go where God sends us, speak what He gives us to speak, hear His voice and obey it – this is our best protection from burnout. It will also guide us to the very best strategy for accomplishing His mission. For everything a man does to follow the call of God, there are ten things he does not do. We cannot do everything. We must focus on the call and not simply the needs.
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Reinhard Bonnke (Living a Life of Fire: An Autobiography by Reinhard Bonnke)
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i'm looking for the face i had before the world was made. I was the primordial flaring forth, the gravitational waves, the whirling galaxies, and the exploding supernovas that would become stars and planets. I was the steaming planet Earth, the bacteria awash in the sea, and the early eukaryotes and multicellular animals. I exploded in the Cambrian explosion, stumbled onto land, walked with dinosaurs, saw trees and flowers appear, walked upright in Africa, and walked on the moon. I felt the embrace of gravity. I was one with all that had been and all that was to be. I experienced subjective mystical communion with the evolutionary, emergent universe. I was the universe. We know not where the journey leads, nor whether a final destination is even a meaningful concept. The attraction is the inherent thrill of participating in a grand creative endeavor for which participation is its own reward
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Alexis Karpouzos (UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS - SPIRITUALITY AND SCIENCE)
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Today, I was reminded that family life is never perfect, it is almost a touch of confusion and chaos wrapped into these amazingly brilliant moments that make you feel loved from the tip of your toes right up to the last strand of hair on your head. Yet, that isn’t what defines a family. It’s the strength of the bonds that help us to find our centeredness even when the situation presents itself as having no center. In those cases, until you find your center, Peppermint Pull-Up cake is always recommended, as a type of a sugary meditation to seal the bonds between those you love, and to remind each other that the way back is always through the center of love. And it makes us realize the gift housed inside of the madness…when our bonds of family live up to the wisdom of an old African saying: β€œTo get lost is to learn the way.” The way always points home…toward the direction of our family’s heart. That point that can break, heal, and break again just to lead us to where peace resides. The juncture called...family.
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hlbalcomb
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Where brains meet brawn you get heart. Where reason meets emotion you get prudence. Where patience meets gratitude you get contentment. Where humility meets confidence you get grace. Where integrity meets modesty you get character. Where theory meets proof you get discovery. Where trust meets courage you get devotion. Where hope meets conviction you get faith. Where law meets equality you get justice. Where strength meets courage you get confidence. Where mercy meets action you get charity. Where virtue meets dignity you get honor. Where equality meets dignity you get freedom. Where faith meets action you get results. Where mind meets body you get experience. Where heart meets mind you get soul. Where past meets future you get infinity. Where time meets truth you get reality. Where knowledge meets understanding you get illumination. Where facts meet opinions you get understanding. Where compassion meets affection you get selflessness. Where intelligence meets kindness you get wisdom. Where science meets faith you get God. Where Heaven meets Hell you get eternity.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When you die, no matter who you are, you may be remembered for your courage or despised for your cowardice, you may be remembered for your gratitude or despised for your bitterness, you may be remembered for your benevolence or despised for your meanness, you may be remembered for your modesty or despised for your arrogance, you may be remembered for your peace or despised for your violence, you may be remembered for your compassion or despised for your ruthlessness, you may be remembered for your mercy or despised for your vengeance, you may be remembered for your love or despised for your unkindness, you may be remembered for your strengths or despised for your weaknesses, you may be remembered for your virtues or despised for your unrighteousness, you may be remembered for your knowledge or despised for your ignorance, you may be remembered for your wisdom or despised for your foolishness, and you may be remembered for your accomplishments or despised for your incompetence. When I die, I want to be remembered for my smile, not my tears; for my laughter, not my pain; for my joy, not my grief; for my patience, not my anger; for my friends, not my enemies; for my mind, not my riches; for my heart, not my titles; for my soul, not my achievements; for my triumphs, not my tragedies; for my character, not my reputation; for my dignity, not my impudence; for my sincerity, not my flattery; for my honor, not my fame; for my integrity, not my friends; and for my life, not my death.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Du Bois brought back a phrase he had coined in 1922, β€œAfrica for Africans”: β€œHereafter it will no longer be ruled by might nor by power, by invading armies nor police, but by the spirit of all its gods and the wisdom of its prophets.”76
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Arthur Herman (The Idea of Decline in Western History)
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The glory of the youth is their strength. In a country, where the youth are deprived of work, what a waste of valuable human resources.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Islam provides the method by which our hearts can become sound and safe again. This method has been the subject of brilliant and insightful scholarship for centuries in the Islamic tradition. One can say that Islam in essence is a program to restore purity and calm to the heart through the remembrance of God. This present text is based on the poem known as MaαΉ­harat al-QulΕ«b (literally, Purification of the Hearts), which offers the means by which purification can be achieved. It is a treatise on the β€œalchemy of the hearts,” namely, a manual on how to transform the heart. It was written by a great scholar and saint, Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud al Ya’qubi al-Musawi al-Muratani, As his name indicates, he was from Mauritania in West Africa. He was a master of all the Islamic sciences, including the inward sciences of the heart. He stated that he wrote this poem because he observed the prevalence of diseased hearts. He saw students of religion spending their time learning abstract sciences that people were not really in need of, to the neglect of those sciences that pertain to what people are accountable for in the next life, namely, the spiritual condition of the heart, In one of his most cited statements, the Prophet said, β€œActions are based upon intentions.” All deeds are thus valued according to the intentions behind them, and intentions emanate from the heart. So every action a person intends or performs is rooted in the heart. Imam Mawlud realized that the weakness of society was a matter of weakness of character in the heart, Imam Mawlud based his text on many previous illustrious works, especially Imam al-Ghazali’s great Ihya’ Ulum alDin (The Revivification of the Sciences of the Religion). Each of the 40 books of Ihyaβ€˜ Ulum al-Din is basically about rectifying the human heart. If we examine the trials and tribulations, wars and other conflicts, every act of injustice all over earth, we’ll find they are rooted in human hearts.
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Hamza Yusuf (Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart)
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If one of us is unwell, then none of us is well.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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What we share is more powerful than what divides us.
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Elizabeth Nyamayaro (I Am a Girl from Africa)
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A PRAYER FOR THE EASTERN CAPE YOUNG PEOPLE SOUTH AFRICA Father God I come before your throne of grace with a heavy heart at this time of great sadness of young lives who are snatched by the evil powers. Right now I ask you Lord Jesus to give peace, strength and comfort to the parents and relatives who are mourning this death that was so sudden and unexpected in the mighty name of Jesus. Shower the assurance of your love, peace grace and kindness in the time of great sadness and help us to be there for each other in Jesus name. Lord we ask for your divine intervention and your divine protection in the mighty name of Jesus. We break every curse and evil agenda of the enemy that is meant to destroy the future of this province and the the entire nation of South Africa and we come against every single negative word that was said to harm our children and our grandchildren in Jesus name. We destroy every evil arrow that is sent to kill our young people and we send it back to the pit of hell where it belongs in mighty name of Jesus. Father God you are the God of justice,meet every need, reveal the real cause of this devastating situation and bring justice to light in the mighty name of Jesus. Heavenly Father we speak life, protection, wisdom and the blessings of the Lord over the entire youth of South Africa. Father rule and reign in our lives and in our land in Jesus name. Thank you King Jesus for your faithfulness. Amen.
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Euginia Herlihy
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Government or politicians are deliberately, intentionally breaking and destroying everything so that their failures will look like they are doing something.
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D.J. Kyos
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A PRAYER FOR MY BELOVED COUNTRY Father God remember my beautiful land of South Africa, remember my nation and remember my beautiful people. Protect the country of South Africa and her people from these demonic forces and give wisdom to the leaders of the nation. Dismantle every single weapon and every demonic plan that is meant to destroy South Africa and her people. You are unchanging and forgiving God. You are the same God who liberated us from the decades and decades of evil racial segregation and I know and believe that you can do it again. You are our only hope, help us to stand firm for the truth, peace and unity. Thank you Lord for your unconditional love and your faithfulness in Jesus name amen. SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO GOD.
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Euginia Herlihy
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A PRAYER FOR SOUTH AFRICA Heal and deliver our beloved nation of South Africa. Protect your faithful servants, protect the entire nation. Give your people the strength to rebuild the country in peace and unity and give wisdom and spirit of compassion to the authorities who are governing the land of South Africa in order to overcome the spirit of poverty in Jesus name. Amen. SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO GOD
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Euginia Herlihy
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Development without inclusivity is a house built on sand
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DJ Bwakali (Savannah Footprints: Wisdom Whispers from 100 African Leaders)
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The transformative leader who overstays his welcome risks becoming the very monster he once fought.
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DJ Bwakali (Savannah Footprints: Wisdom Whispers from 100 African Leaders)
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IS FATIGUE ALL IN YOUR HEAD? In the early 1990s, in a physiology lab at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, an exercise scientist named Tim Noakes, MD, unveiled a radical new way to think about fatigue. Until then, prevailing wisdom held that fatigue occurred in the body. At a certain intensity or duration of physical effort, the demands we put on our muscles become too great and, eventually, our muscles fail. Ask any athlete, from a marathon runner to a powerlifter, and they will be familiar with the feeling. It’s not a particularly comfortable one. What at first is a manageable burn becomes worse and worse until they can no longer bear it. The runner’s pace slows to a mere shuffle; the powerlifter can’t manage to hoist the barbell up for one last rep. Try as they might, they simply run out of gas and their muscles cease to contract. Noakes, however, wasn’t convinced that fatigue occurred in the body or that muscles actually ran out of gas. He questioned why so many athletes, seemingly overwhelmed by fatigue, were suddenly able to speed up during the final stretch of a race when the end was in sight. If the muscles were truly dead, Noakes hypothesized, these finish-line spurts would be impossible. To prove his point, Noakes attached electrical sensors to athletes and then instructed them to lift weights with their legs until they simply couldn’t lift any longer. (In exercise science, this is called β€œinducing muscle failure.”) When the weights slammed down and each participant tapped out, reporting they could no longer contract their muscles, Noakes ran an electrical current through the sensor. Much to the surprise of everyoneβ€”especially to the participants whose legs were deadβ€”their muscles contracted. Although the participants could not contract their muscles on their own, Noakes proved that their muscles actually had more to give. The participants felt drained, but empirically, their muscles were not. Noakes repeated similar versions of this experiment and observed the same result. Although participants reported being totally depleted and unable to contract their muscles after exercising to what they thought was failure, when electrical stimulation was applied, without fail, their muscles produced additional force. This led Noakes to conclude that contrary to popular belief, physical fatigue occurs not in the body, but in the brain. It’s not that our muscles wear out; rather, it is our brain that shuts them down when they still have a few more percentage points to give. Noakes speculates this is an innately programmed way of protecting ourselves. Physiologically, we could push our bodies to true failure (i.e., injury and organ failure), but the brain comes in and creates a perception of failure before we actually harm ourselves. The brain, Noakes remarked, is our β€œcentral governor” of fatigue. It’s our β€œego” shutting us down when confronted by fear and threat. In other words, we are hardwired to retreat when the going gets tough. But like Boyle and Strecher demonstrated, it is possible to override the central governor.
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Brad Stulberg (Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success)
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The philosophy of the whiner is not to heal, but to actually keep as many people trapped in their grieving as possible.
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Sobonfu E. SomΓ© (Women's Wisdom from the Heart of Africa)
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Dear Black Man (Poem) ***** I love you because you make me feel things that I have never felt before. You erase my pain and you bring me so much gain. You embrace me and hide me in your well built African and manly body. You make me want to never look at other bodies. I love how you cut your hair. I love to feel your love in the air. The texture of your hair, so beautiful, so artistic. Your beautiful smile, so amazing; it reminds me of hiding places. You walk like you own the world; at least, I assure you that you own mine and the rest of my words. Black Man, you are beautiful. Your skin tone is so dark, it makes me want to bark. Please allow me to run my hands on the hills of that skin. You are handsome, my amazing king. The way you speak your language. The way you speak your Xhosa. Your Hausa. Your Zulu. Your Kituba. Your Tswana. Your Lingala. Your Venda. Your Gadomba. Your Tsonga. Your Shona. Your Bateke. Your Ga. Your Sotho. Your Igbo. Your eyes. Black Man, your eyes tell me a story never heard before. You teach me; from your wisdom, I learn. From your strength, I know 'I can'. Black Man, they enslaved you because they found you intimidating. But today, they look for you to be their mate in dating. You look at my stretchmarks with an eye of an artist. You appreciate my big behind with no judgement. You kiss my big lips with love. And in my big thighs, you hide. You love me when I have no hair. You love me when I have fake hair. Black Man, I thought of you and I wrote to you. All hail the Black king! From your Black Woman, (with African curves) .
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Mitta Xinindlu
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Building of the country lies on work force of the youth while harnessing the wisdom of elderly people.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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We need to pray to God to raise good leaders in Africa. Leaders that are not compromised or sellout. Leaders that are not selfish or greedy but caring and kind. Leaders that are not power hungry or corrupt. Leaders that are courageous ,wise and have backbone. Leaders that are noble, wise and have integrity. Leaders to lead Africa into victory rather than doom. Leaders that protect their people, rather than selling and killing them. Leaders that pray for their people rather than prey on their people
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D.J. Kyos
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In other part of the world. Scientist create problems and then provide solutions for the problems they created in order to make profit.. In Africa criminals create problems and also they provide solutions for the problems they created in order to make profit. Most of our problems are made by the people who say they are here to save us.
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D.J. Kyos
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Opportunists who are scavengers, always take advantage of people who are vulnerable and gullible. They are wolves in sheep skin. They are selfish , self centered and always manipulate other people. They lie and fool people to think they care . They always think they are right and everyone is wrong.
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D.J. Kyos
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Their largest manufacture was of creeds: almost they were monopolists of revealed religions. Three of these efforts had endured among them: two of the three had also borne export (in modified forms) to non-Semitic peoples. Christianity, translated into the diverse spirits of Greek and Latin and Teutonic tongues, had conquered Europe and America. Islam in various transformations was subjecting Africa and parts of Asia. These were Semitic successes. Their failures they kept to themselves. The fringes of their deserts were strewn with broken faiths.
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T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph)
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In the cosmology of the Dagara peoples, matter and Spirit are fused. These two phenomena are complementary, each a reflection of the other. In the Dagara story of creation, the physical world that we can touch and feel and see came into being in parallel with a brighter, more dynamic and expansive energetic world that we call the Other World, or the Spirit World, or the unseen world. These two aspects of the universe do not exist as a polarity, for each is a manifestation of the other, and each is dependent on the other, with a stream of interaction going both ways to maintain balance and stability. The indigenous belief of the Dagara is that we are primarily Spirit. In order to exist as material beings, we have to take a form, and there is the sense among my people that to be in matter is not the most familiar or suitable form for us. To fit ourselves into the narrow part of the universe that allows energy to exist as matter takes some getting used to, and we only bother with it at all because it serves the useful and unavaoidable purpose of expanding the spirit in us.
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Malidoma Patrice SomΓ© (The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community)
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As Africans our leaders failed us and they keep on failing us daily, by trying to keep us poor, uneducated, unskilled, slaves, undeveloped. We are failing ourselves on how we behave, think and how we talk. We are failing ourselves by undermining each other, humiliating one another. Killing each other. Committing crime, misbehaving, and breaking the law . Making fun of each other’s suffering, problems, living and lifestyles. Our enemy is poverty, crime, unemployment, and inequality . We should be ashamed of ourselves for thinking that the people we are hurting and committing crime to deserve it.
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
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Lot of us are soo poor that we can't afford to think and say the right things. Some of us the reason we are poor it is because our riches are stolen from us.
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
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1870.β€”One of my waking dreams is that the legendary tales about Moses coming up into Inner Ethiopia with Merr his foster-mother, and founding a city which he called in her honour "Meroe," may have a substratum of fact. He was evidently a man of transcendent genius, and we learn from the speech of St. Stephen that "he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds." His deeds must have been well known in Egypt, for "he supposed that his brethren would have understood how that God by His hand would deliver them, but they understood not." His supposition could not be founded on his success in smiting a single Egyptian; he was too great a man to be elated by a single act of prowess, but his success on a large scale in Ethiopia afforded reasonable grounds for believing that his brethren would be proud of their countryman, and disposed to follow his leadership, but they were slaves. The
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David Livingstone (The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: 1869-1873)
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The peace of God, is the greatest gift on earth.
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Jerry Sarkwah (The Boy from Africa)
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Contemplating the extinction of Christian communities, others might also be moved to consider profound issues of meaning, which recall the agonized dilemmas of Jewish thinkers seeking to reconcile the fact of the Holocaust with the existence of a just God. In the presence of such horrors, why did the skies not darken? One might even see the failure of churches as a potent argument against the truth of Christianity. If in fact the religion is true, if God intends his church to carry a message to the utmost ends of the earth, why would he ever allow that church to die? Is God silent, or nonexistent? Christians have always believed that God guides all earthly affairs. An ancient hymn prays to Christ as incarnate Wisdom: O come, Thou Wisdom from on high, Who orderest all things mightily. But did that mighty β€œordering” include the annihilation of many of the world’s churches, the persecution or defection of their believers?
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Philip Jenkins (The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asiaβ€”and How It Died)
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They are going to kill us, so I shall speak as my dead self, which is my best self.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther (2016-2018) #1)
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18th April, 1872.β€”I pray the good Lord of all to favour me so as to allow me to discover the ancient fountains of Herodotus, and if there is anything in the underground excavations to confirm the precious old documents (Γ„ Β²ΒΉΒ²Β»1Β±), the Scriptures of truth, may He permit me to bring it to light, and give me wisdom to make a proper use of it.
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David Livingstone (The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: 1869-1873)
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I think that Europe and the West must rediscover the meaning of the family by looking at the traditions that Africa never abandoned. On my continent, the family is the melting pot of the values that irrigate the whole culture, the place where customs, wisdom, and moral principles are handed down, the cradle of unconditional love. Without the family, neither society nor the Church exists any more. In a family, the parents transmit the faith. The family lays the foundations on which we construct the building of our life. The family is the little Church where we begin to encounter God, to love him, and to form personal ties with him. My
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Robert Sarah (God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith)
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Some philosophising is curious. It represents our Maker forming the machine of the universe: setting it a-going, and able to do nothing more outside certain of His own laws. He, as it were, laid the egg of the whole, and, like an ostrich, left it to be hatched by the sun. We can control laws, but He cannot! A fire set to this house would consume it, but we can throw on water and consume the fire. We control the elements, fire and water: is He debarred from doing the same, and more, who has infinite wisdom and knowledge? He surely is greater than His own laws. Civilization is only what has been done with natural laws. Some foolish speculations in morals resemble the idea of a Muganda, who said last night, that if Mtesa didn't kill people now and then, his subjects would suppose that he was dead!
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David Livingstone (The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: 1869-1873)
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In conversing with a prince at Johanna, one of the Comoro islands lying off the north end of Madagascar, he took occasion to extol the wisdom of the Arabs in keeping strict watch over their wives. On suggesting that their extreme jealousy made them more like jailers than friends of their wives, or, indeed, that they thus reduced themselves to the level of the inferior animals, and each was like the bull of a herd and not like a reasonable manβ€”"fuguswa"β€”and that they gave themselves a vast deal of trouble for very small profit; he asserted that the jealousy was reasonable because all women were bad, they could not avoid going astray. And on remarking that this might be the case with Arab women, but certainly did not apply to English women, for though a number were untrustworthy, the majority deserved all the confidence their husbands could place in them, he reiterated that women were universally bad. He did not believe that women ever would be good; and the English allowing their wives to gad about with faces uncovered, only showed their weakness, ignorance, and unwisdom.
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David Livingstone (The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: 1869-1873)
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Far gone are the escapades of open disparage, it is the dawn of courageous hopeful hearts.
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Wayne Chirisa
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After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn 'to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God'? To those who are possessed of this spirit there is scarcely any book of incident so trifling that does not afford some profit, while to others the experience of ages seems of no use; and even to pour out to them the treasures of wisdom is throwing the jewels of instruction away.
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Olaudah Equiano (The Interesting Narrative and other writings)
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If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – it does not define an individual’s ambitions - it does not define an individual’s dreams – and above all, it does not define an individual’s character.
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Abhijit Naskar (We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism (Humanism Series))
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Afrikan Unity is Afrikan Progress; Afrika cannot move significantly forward without Afrikan unity.
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Eze Chimere Nwauzo
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Our time is too short to waste walking down paths to nowhere.” The old man averted his gaze away from the cooking fire and covered his shoulders with a threadbare blanket the usefulness of which seemed long since to have been served. It reeked of wood smoke and stale tobacco. I knew at that moment he would give me the benefit of his wisdom. I didn’t want to lead our conversation too quickly in the direction I intended. Africa is timeless and so are her people. The minutes and the hours are unknown computations of a span irrelevant. Time is unimportant and its purpose trivial. Its allotment is measured only by the purpose of a mind composed.
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Timothy G. Bax (Who Will Teach the Wisdom)
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In Africa custom, impatience will get you nowhere.
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Timothy G. Bax (Who Will Teach the Wisdom)
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We must arise and build the nation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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However, the Law of Attraction seems like watered- down spirituality. The idea that concentration alone can materialize what we want seems like wishful thinking. I don’t dispute that vision boards and goalkeeping are an incredible way of keeping us on track and reminding us of what we want. I do not believe, however, that intention alone gets us where we are in life. The Law of Attraction can seem victim-blamey. It argues that every problem, be it financial, interpersonal, or health-related, can be changed if you intend enough. If your circumstances don’t change, you’re left to think that you just didn’t concentrate hard enough. When it does happen, you attribute manifestation as the cause. Those who come up in underprivileged circumstances shouldn’t be blamed for where they are in life. If getting everything we ever wanted was as easy as concentrating, children in Africa would have clean water and no soldier would die in battle. The trend of the Law of Attraction has ebbed and flowed in popularity over the past few decades. My hope is that it can be used in a practical way, without making unrealistic promises. Visualization is powerful. Setting your intention can make ripples in the real world. Yet, it’s so much more than just closing your eyes and thinking a happy thought. I fear that the recent New-Ageification of these concepts may take away from their true use.
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Tyler Henry (Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now)
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However, the Law of Attraction seems like watered- down spirituality. The idea that concentration alone can materialize what we want seems like wishful thinking. I don’t dispute that vision boards and goalkeeping are an incredible way of keeping us on track and reminding us of what we want. I do not believe, however, that intention alone gets us where we are in life. The Law of Attraction can seem victim-blamey. It argues that every problem, be it financial, interpersonal, or health-related, can be changed if you intend enough. If your circumstances don’t change, you’re left to think that you just didn’t concentrate hard enough. When it does happen, you attribute manifestation as the cause. Those who come up in underprivileged circumstances shouldn’t be blamed for where they are in life. If getting everything we ever wanted was as easy as concentrating, children in Africa would have clean water and no soldier would die in battle.
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Tyler Henry (Here & Hereafter: How Wisdom from the Departed Can Transform Your Life Now)
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Society came first. But these religions come with a complete manual to change your entire lifestyle. Thus giving you a new identity. You can live in Africa, but still behave like a Roman.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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My short time in Pretoria made me realize that it can best be described as that place where the brushstrokes of life blend the old with the new in a way that helps to create a story of a place that will forever be deeply tucked into the breathing spaces of my heart, as a place of fondness. A reminder that even when the lessons doesn’t go according to plan, there are always chances to be like the statue of President Nelson Mandela, open arms – embracing the future and using the past, especially the most difficult chapters, to help to infuse new life through the wisdom gained by being like the middle part of the Union Buildings, a space of collaboration. In the words of South African British poet William Polmer, β€œCreativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” And when the connection is made, that place is simply called Pretoria. And if one should look a little deeper at the connection, you’ll understand that Pretoria is simply a word with a Latin origin, Praetor, that means Leader, a perfect place to house the Union Buildings, the place where our difference becomes one, and that knowledge becomes the spectrum of where the old and the new intersect, and we call that… Pretoria…Leader within.
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hlbalcomb
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Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for resistance to the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa for twenty-seven years. For eighteen of those years, he had a bucket for a toilet, a hard cot in a small cell, and once a year he was allowed a single visitorβ€”for thirty minutes. It was vicious treatment meant to isolate and break down the prisoners. And yet, in spite of that, Mandela became a figure of dignity within the prison. Though he was deprived of many things, he still found creative ways to assert his will. As one of his fellow prisoners, Neville Alexander, explained on Frontline, β€œHe [Mandela] always made the point, if they say you must run, insist on walking. If they say you must walk fast, insist on walking slowly. That was the whole point. We are going to set the terms.” He pretended to jump rope and shadowboxed to stay in shape. He held his head higher than other prisoners, encouraged them when times got tough, and always retained his sense of self-assurance. That self-assurance is yours to claim as well. No matter what happens today, no matter where you find yourself, shift to what lies within your reasoned choices. Ignore, as best you can, the emotions that pop up, which would be so easy to distract yourself with. Don’t get emotionalβ€”get focused.
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Ryan Holiday (The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living)
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If the land is cultivated, Africa should not lack food.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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As to the question whether this modification is opportune, the fact must not be lost sight of that the Berlin Conference never intended to fix unalterably the economic system of the Free State, which, as was already then foreseen, would undergo radical modifications under the influence of progress, nor of establishing for an indefinite period regulations which may hinder, check, and even arrest its development. Provision was wisely made for the probability of future changes, which would require a certain latitude in economic matters in order to secure their easy realization... The moment has now come when the marvellous progress made by the infant State is creating fresh needs, when it would be only in accordance with wisdom and foresight to revise an economic system primarily adapted to a creative and transitional period. Can we blame the infant State for a progress which, in its rapidity, has surpassed the most optimistic forecasts? Can we hinder and arrest this progress in refusing her the means necessary for her development? Can we condemn the Sovereign who has already made such great sacrifices to support for an indefinite period a burden which daily becomes heavier, and at the same time impose upon him new and heavy expenses necessitated by the suppression of the slave-trade? We are convinced that there will be but one answer to these questions.
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Edward Baldwin Malet (Acte gΓ©nΓ©ral de la confΓ©rence de Berlin de 1885)
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Politicians are trying so hard to run away from having the same problems you are having. They don't want to spend money in fixing your problems. They are all about helping themselves not others. That is why they are distancing themselves from people who elected them. They are getting bodyguards, big fast cars, big houses, move out of the hood. High wall or fencing.
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D.J. Kyos
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BambarrΓ©, 25th August, 1870.β€”One of my waking dreams is that the legendary tales about Moses coming up into Inner Ethiopia with Merr his foster-mother, and founding a city which he called in her honour "Meroe," may have a substratum of fact. He was evidently a man of transcendent genius, and we learn from the speech of St. Stephen that "he was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
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David Livingstone (The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last ... ... From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi)
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War is business for these people. That is why they will never support peace negotiants but can fund and support you with weapons.
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D.J. Kyos
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The difference between the Western and Africa is that . The west is fighting for its own people and Africa is fighting against its own people. The president, Mayor, Member of parliament, Politicians, Institutions, NGO’s, Foundations, Artists, Police, Military, and the Media they are in one voice in fighting for their country nonmatter their differences or believes. But in Africa The president, Mayor, Member of parliament, Politicians, Institutions, NGO’s, Foundations, Artists, Police, Military, and the Media they all fighting against their own people. The hate they have for their own it is what makes Africa what it is today.
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D.J. Kyos
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We have so many economists in Africa who are idealists rather than materialists. They are full of ideas, but lack the wisdom to make better use of nature. Only industrialization is the remedy for the African problem.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Africa is not getting better but it is getting worse because its government and leaders are suffering from plausible deniability. That is what is destroying Africa.
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Nelson Mandela was already a name synonymous with freedom and wisdom, justice and principle, by the time I took my first steps. However, it was not until over a decade later, when in my late teens I started to do a little reading and research of my own, that I even heard mention of Cuba's contribution to anti-apartheid. This obvious omission, along with the simplistic narratives that surrounded Mandela and Castro, was a valuable lesson to me about how the powerful craft history and news media to their own ends.
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Akala (Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire)
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A PRAYER FOR THE EASTERN CAPE YOUNG PEOPLE SOUTH AFRICA 2022 Father God I come before your throne of grace with a heavy heart at this time of great sadness of young lives who are snatched by the evil powers. Right now I ask you Lord Jesus to give peace, strength and comfort to the parents and the relatives who are mourning this death that was sudden and unexpected in the mighty name of Jesus. Shower the assurance of your love, peace, grace and kindness in this time of great sadness and help us to be there for each other in Jesus name. Lord we ask for your divine intervention and your divine protection in the mighty name of Jesus. We break every curse and evil agenda of the enemy that is meant to destroy the future of this province and the entire nation of South Africa and we come against every single negative word that was said to harm our children and our grandchildren in Jesus name. We destroy every evil arrow that is sent to kill our young people and we send it back to the pit of hell where it belongs in the mighty name of Jesus. Father God you are the God of justice, meet every need, reveal the real cause of this devastating situation and bring justice to light in the mighty name of Jesus. Heavenly Father we speak life, protection, wisdom and the blessings of the Lord over the entire youth of South Africa. Father rule and reign in our lives and in our land in Jesus name. Thank you King Jesus for your faithfulness. Amen.
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Euginia Herlihy
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When I think of the other’s misfortunes, I forget mine.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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A tree cannot stand without roots.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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The elephant does not limp when walking on thorns.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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Even in the monastery there is occasion for song and merriment.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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When a strong man sends a message, he sends it with a weak man
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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One camel does not make fun of the other camel’s hump.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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The death of an elderly man is like a burning library.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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flea can trouble a lion more than a lion can trouble a flea.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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The cow that bellows does so for all cows.
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Ibrahim Mustapha (The Book of African proverbs: A collection of 600 plus wise sayings and words of wisdom from the tribes and people of Africa (Black African Motivational history 1))
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dr shabil
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In Europe and the U.S., most white doctors believed that phthisisβ€”as it was inherited by those with great sensitivity and intelligenceβ€”could only affect white people, and it was sometimes known as β€œThe White Man’s Plague.” One American doctor, for instance, called it, β€œa disease of the master race not of the slave race.” As Snowden writes, β€œIn the United States, the prevailing wisdom was that African Americans contracted a different disease. The disinclination even to give it a name speaks volumes with regard to the prevailing racial hierarchy and the lack of access to medical care by people of color.” This phenomenon extended to all colonial empires. Many European colonialists believed that TB did not exist in South Asia or Africa, even though physicians working in colonized communities knew otherwise.
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John Green (Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection)
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Education is liberation, knowledge is power.
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Henry Johnson Jr
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How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Intellect knows. Sympathy feels. Compassion understands. Wisdom knows. Joy feels. Love understands. Awareness knows. Consciousness feels. Experience understands. The mind knows. The heart feels. The soul understands. Nature knows. Mankind feels. The universe understands.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Knowledge is the door to wisdom. Discipline is the door to mastery. Truth is the door to enlightenment. Patience is the door to virtue. Understanding is the door to peace. Intelligence is the door to wisdom. Pleasure is the door to happiness. Humility is the door to honor. Compassion is the door to mercy. Grace is the door to hospitality. Charity is the door to goodwill. Desire is the door to attachment. Freedom is the door to happiness. Religion is the door to morality. Sympathy is the door to humanity. Unity is the door to world peace. Art is the door to culture. Science is the door to innovation.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I am fortitude,” said faith. β€œI am contentment,” said peace. β€œI am delight,” said joy. β€œI am goodness,” said virtue. β€œI am God,” said love. β€œI am truth,” said knowledge. β€œI am sight,” said understanding. β€œI am perception,” said intelligence. β€œI am prudence,” said wisdom. β€œI am awareness,” said enlightenment. β€œI am success,” said excellence. β€œI am mastery,” said discipline. β€œI am persistence,” said focus. β€œI am influence,” said action. β€œI am character,” said destiny.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When Africa suffers the Middle East suffers, when the Middle East suffers Asia suffers, when Asia suffers Europe suffers, when Europe suffers America suffers, and when America suffers the world suffers. What you learn from black people you won’t learn from white people. What you learn from white people you won’t learn from black people. What you learn from one people you won’t learn from another people. What you learn from an enlightened people teach to all people.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
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Anne M. Chappel (Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival)
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One word can lift a mind. One smile can soothe a heart. One touch can heal a soul. One act can change a world. One mind can lift a people. One heart can soothe a nation. One soul can touch a continent. One deed can change mankind.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Curiosity is a student. Patience is a saint. Experience is a shelter. Intuition is a sage. Intelligence is a student. Prudence is a saint. Understanding is a shelter. Wisdom is a sage. Awareness is a student. Goodness is a saint. Discernment is a shelter. Virtue is a sage. Humility is a student. Faith is a saint. Joy is a shelter. Love is a sage. The mind is a student. The heart is a saint. The body is a shelter. The soul is a sage. Life is a student. Truth is a saint. Fate is a shelter. Immortality is a sage. Today is a student. Yesterday is a saint. Tomorrow is a shelter. Eternity is a sage. Mankind is a student. Nature is a saint. The universe is a shelter. God is a sage.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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third layer of nativeness was composed of those who others thought directly descended, even in the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa to this continent centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion to the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it, and unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils, and to which Saeed in particular was attracted, since at a place of worship where he had gone one Friday the communal prayer was led by a man who came from this tradition and spoke of this tradition, and Saeed had found, in the weeks he and Nadia had been in Marin, this man’s words to be full of soul-soothing wisdom.
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Mohsin Hamid (Exit West)
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Strength through unification is unattainable when discord is more prevalent than the well intended course of action.
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Wayne Chirisa
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I know it difficult to teach of 6 billion people to love each others... But atleast some can give up hate... Just trail of thoughts for you.. The beings on the planet came to existance. Somehow.. Not willing to debate about the source being God or Science.. Then they started evolving and adapting with the natural srrounding.. Some went to Africa the nature burnt their skins and raised the melanin content in their bodies and made them "Blacks".. Some went to Europe the same malanin was washed away as wasnt required and they became "Whites".. And the most fortunate like us came to Southern Asia and became "Browns" Similar was the case with adaptation to the fooding habits too... These habits took ages to settle in and were forced by nature... With passage of time humans gathered some wisdom and wanted too move away from the natural coarse of life designed by nature for them. In most of the ancient paintings found people have been shown killing or exploiting others.. In most of the recorded history maximum elaboration is about Battles and Wars. Where winners were always HEROES and losers were VILLAINS.. In recorded history very few VILLAINS actually won final wars. People started choosing the Victorious as heroes out of fear. The victorious could define and dictate terms to the society. This continues for ages till further evolution of human brains started. The evolution of human brains led to disloyalty towards the victorious and powerful rulers. Their brains taught them the power of togetherness clubbed with conspiracy could uproot the rulers. They started resisting the powerful. May be this is the time when something called religions came to existence to tame the behaviour of Man from the fear of unknown... i.e. Heaven and Hell. They held the societies together got in rules and regulations but again these were based on hating others and protecting community, cities or co-followers. Unfortunately now These Fears of Unknown from different geographical locations are confronting each other stating my fear is bigger than your fear.. But eventually every one has some path i.e. Birth to Death ... During this lengthy thoughts i have understood that its not the fault of a Black to be black and there is no contribution of a White in being born a white... So being Brown is Great... Eternal life is fro the people who did things for generations to remember that's what heaven and hellz all about. - A Black can show supremacy by being Nelson Mandella - A White can help and heal people to Become Mother Teressa - A Brown can liberate and fight for Kids and become Kailash Satyarthi At this point you must also know that Thousands of Years have Gone.. and one thing that remains constant after "CHANGE" is "HATE" Can we change or let it be as was written on the WALL...
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Talees Rizvi (21 Day Target and Achievement Planner [Use Only Printed Work Book: LIFE IS SIMPLE HENCE SIMPLE WORKBOOK (Life Changing Workbooks 1))
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Our saviors are actually our killers. They have created enemies for us when we had none and are paying our enemies. They are the ones causing instability and mayhem, then blaming us for not living in peace while they are the ones starting all the wars.
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De philosopher DJ Kyos
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He firmly associated that church with the cause of American Black nationalism. After a lengthy flirtation with the African colonization movementβ€”which advocated the migration of free Black people across the Atlanticβ€”Allen declared in an 1827 letter that America now belonged as much to the descendants of Africa as to those of Europe. His unflinching rhetoric still echoes in Sunday sermons and stump speeches. β€œThis land which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds, and the gospel is free,” Allen declared.
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Kevin Sack (Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church)
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Educating the Educators (Sonnet 2281) Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth. Maps of the world are whitewashed, history of the world is whitewashed, ethics of the world are whitewashed, knowledge of the world is whitewashed. No wisdom is flawless 'n absolute, ancient or modern, but the point is, enlightenment and civilization did not originate in europe, they were born of the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.
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Abhijit Naskar (Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper)
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Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth.
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Abhijit Naskar (Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper)
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Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist discipline, but as everyday way of life, later the europeans contributed their puny drop in the ocean, but of course, the myth of europe as the origin of philosophy goes deceptively well with the whitewashed history of earth. Enlightenment and civilization did not originate in europe, they were born of the lands colonially categorized as uncivilized.
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Abhijit Naskar (Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper)
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The wisdom of Africa, carried through millennia of tradition and a just balance with the universe, can guide us out of global disorder and bring us back to what truly matters.
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Richy Keumoe Fozeu (African Wisdom: 888 Quotes from the Cradle of Humanity)
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A culture has no meaning apart from the social organisation of life on which it is built.
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Jomo Kenyatta (Facing Mount Kenya: Tribal Life of the Kikuyu)
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THOU SHALT NOT KILL A Memorial for Dylan Thomas I They are murdering all the young men. For half a century now, every day, They have hunted them down and killed them. They are killing them now. At this minute, all over the world, They are killing the young men. They know ten thousand ways to kill them. Every year they invent new ones. In the jungles of Africa, In the marshes of Asia, In the deserts of Asia, In the slave pens of Siberia, In the slums of Europe, In the nightclubs of America, The murderers are at work. They are stoning Stephen, They are casting him forth from every city in the world. Under the Welcome sign, Under the Rotary emblem, On the highway in the suburbs, His body lies under the hurling stones. He was full of faith and power. He did great wonders among the people. They could not stand against his wisdom. They could not bear the spirit with which he spoke. He cried out in the name Of the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness.
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Kenneth Rexroth
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Before we commence this guided tour of Mozambiquan paradise of the proletariat, this shining gem of African socialism, will you bear with me while I give you a few facts and figures. Nobody protested, so he went on. Until 1975 Mozambique was a Portuguese colony. For almost five hundred years it had been under Portuguese control and had been a reasonably happy and prosperous community of some fifteen million souls. The Portugese unlike the British or German colonists had a relaxed attitude towards miscegenation and the result was a large mulatto population, and an official policy of 'Assimilado' under which any person of colour , if he attained certain civilised standards, was considered to be white and enjoyed Portugese nationality. It all worked very well, as indeed did most colonial administrations, especially those of the British.' 'Bullshit,' said Claudia demurely. 'That's limey propaganda. 'Limey?" Sean smiled thinly. 'Carefull, your prejudice is showing, nonetheless your average Indian or African living today in a former British colony is a damned sight worse off now than he was then. Certainly that goes one hundred times more for your average black man living in Mozambique.' 'At least they are free,' Claudia cut in, and Sean laughed. 'This is freedom? an economy managed under the well-known socialist principles of chaos and ruination which has resulted in a negative growth rate of up to ten per cent per annum every year since the Portuguese withdrawal, a foreign debt amounting to double the gross national product, a total breakdown in the education system, and only five per cent of children regularly attending a recognised school, one doctor per forty five thousand persons, only one person in ten with access to purified drinking water, infant mortality at 340 per 1000 births. The only worse countries in the world are Afghanistan and Angola, but as you say, at least they are free. In America, where everyone eats three huge meals a day, freedom may be a big deal, but in Africa a full belly counts a hell of alot more'. 'It can't be as bad as that,' she protested. 'No,' he agreed. It's a lot worse. I haven't mentioned two other factors, the civil war and aids. When the Portugese were pushed out, they handed over to a dictator named Samaro Machel and his Frelimo party. Machel was an avowed Marxist. He didn't believe in the nonsense of elections, and his rule was directly responsible for the present condition of the country, and for the emergence of the National Mozambiquan resistance or as it is known to its freinds and admirers, Renamo. Nobody knows much about it, what its objectives are, who its leaders are, all we know it that it controls most of the country, especially the north, and that it made up of a pretty ruthless bunch of characters.' 'Renamo is a South African front organisation, directed, supplied and controlled from Pretoria,' Claudia helped him out. 'Committed to the overthrow of sovereign government and the destabilisation of the southern continent.' 'Well done, ducky, ' Sean nodded approval. 'You've been studying the wisdom and erudition of the Organisation of African Unity and the non-aligned nations. You have even mastered their jargon. If only South Africa had the military and technological capacity to commit half the skulduggery it is accused of, it would not be simply the most powerful country in Africa.
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Wilbur Smith (A Time to Die (Courtney publication, #7; Courtney chronological, #23))
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Kasturba Gandhi stands as one of the most quietly powerful figures in India’s freedom struggle. Often remembered as the wife of Mahatma Gandhi, her identity extends far beyond that association. She was a freedom fighter, social reformer, and a symbol of resilience whose life mirrored the hardships and sacrifices of colonial resistance. Kasturba Gandhi played a crucial role in shaping Gandhian philosophy through her lived experience, moral strength, and unwavering commitment to social justice. Early Life and Background Kasturba Gandhi was born as Kasturba Makhanji Kapadia on April 11, 1869, in Porbandar, a coastal town in present-day Gujarat. She was born into a traditional merchant family and received limited formal education, which was common for girls in nineteenth-century India. Despite this, Kasturba developed practical wisdom, emotional intelligence, and moral courage that would later define her public life. From an early age, she was exposed to the social customs and restrictions imposed on women. Child marriage, limited access to education, and rigid household roles were deeply embedded in society. Kasturba Gandhi’s life would later become an example of how women could transcend these boundaries without rejecting cultural roots entirely. Marriage to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Kasturba Gandhi was married to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1883 when both were only thirteen years old. Their marriage began as a conventional arrangement, but it evolved significantly over time. As Mahatma Gandhi’s worldview transformed through education and political awakening, Kasturba too underwent a parallel evolution. In the early years, their relationship faced challenges. Gandhi later admitted to being possessive and authoritative during their youth. Kasturba Gandhi, however, showed remarkable strength in asserting her dignity. Their relationship matured into one based on mutual respect, shared ideals, and collective sacrifice. When Gandhi left for London and later South Africa, Kasturba remained in India, managing household responsibilities and raising their children. These years prepared her for the demanding life that awaited her in public service.
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