“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
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“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.”
― Maat the 11 laws of God
― Maat the 11 laws of God
“Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.”
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“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
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