2. MALCOLM X: You have to be careful
introducing the truth to the Black
man who has never previously
heard the truth about himself, his
own kind…The Black brother is so
brainwashed that he may even be
repelled when he first hears the
truth…The truth had to be dropped
only a little bit at a time and you
had to wait a while to let it sink in
before advancing the next step.
3. HOSEA 4:6 [KJV]
“My people are destroyed
for a lack of knowledge:
because you have rejected
knowledge, I will also reject you,
that you will be no priest to me:
seeing that you have forgotten
the laws of your God, I will also
forget your children.”
4. MALCOLM X
“You don’t even know who you are…
You don’t even know…that you are
of a race of people of ancient
civilizations and riches in gold and
kings. You don’t even know your
true family name, you wouldn’t
recognize your true language if you
heard it. You have been cut of [by
enslavement] …from all true
knowledge of your own kind.”
5. EDMUND BURKE
People will not look forward
to posterity, who never look
backward to their ancestors.
209. Malcolm X: “You can not hate
the roots of a tree
without hating the tree itself.”
Therefore, to hate ones history is
to hate ones self; to be without a
memory, to be reduced to the
lower animals and thereby, to be
destroyed because of a lack of
knowledge of self.
210. MAYA ANGELOU:
No man can know where he
is going unless he knows
exactly where he has been
and exactly how he arrived
at his present place.