Everything you ARE stems from what you’ve experienced.
It’s an unstoppable force like gravity.
You cannot stop the programming but, YOU can CHOOSE what you hear and experience.
You can choose WHAT and WHO programs your mind.
“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
but still, like air,
I'll rise!” —Maya Angelou
In memory of those who chose the sea.. —The "Igbo Landing" story —
In an act of mass resistance against slavery, a group of slaves revolted, took control of the slave ship grounded it on an island & rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into water & drown.
THREAD!
“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up - lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”
54 years ago today, Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute at the Olympics that outraged millions of white Americans.
They were suspended from the U.S. team. They received death threats. But neither man ever apologized—and neither ever had need to.
Charles Baker was a self-taught mechanical engineer who spent the majority of his childhood in slavery. He developed the first friction heater, which was patented in January 1903.