Words of Wisdom from the Elders and Ancestors Part 1:

The Ankh is called the Key of Life. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is also the Key to this life. Gain it and prosper or ignore it and suffer. This image is a replica of the ankh found in Tut-Ankh-Imin’s Tomb.

STRATEGIES OF WAR

The Gospel According to
Dr. Anthony Browder

“You must be actively engaged in
the process of freeing your mind.
You have to begin the process of
freeing your mind by evaluating
everything that you have been
taught. Everything! And develop a
discriminating eye so that you can
ultimately learn what not to
believe. You don’t want to believe
everything everybody tells you.
The brain is a sacred instrument.
You don’t give everybody access to
this instrument. We all have been
lied to. We all have been miseducated
and we are trying to
reconstruct our consciousness.”

NUBIAN LEGEND

Anonymous Ancestor

“The Creative Essence multiplied
itself into a million, billion pieces
and sent it’s self out into the
universe, comprising the melanated
men and women of humanity.”
“The Beast (Devil) multiplied
itself into not so many pieces and
sent it’s color-less self out into the
universe, comprising what is kind
of like a man (mankind).”

CULTURE

The Gospel According to
Dr. Wade Nobles

“Culture is to humans as water is
to fish. Humans can’t exist outside
of culture. So you either in your
authentic culture which is Afrikan
or you are in some other culture.
Which could be an adopted culture.
Could be an adaptation of a culture.
It could be an aberrant culture.
When we borrow someone else’s
culture, we borrow their insanity as
well. We borrow their genius, but
we also borrow their insanity. And
depending upon who we borrow
from, the balance of genius to
insanity may not be to our
advantage.”

POWER

The Gospel According To
Dr. Wade Nobles

“The definition of power is a
psychological question. It is not a
military question. It is not a
economic question. It’s not a social
question. It is a psychological
question. Power is the ability to
define reality and to have other
people respond to your definition
as if it were their own. Our
dilemma, our problem is that we
allow other people to define the
meaning of who we are. And once
we accepted their definition we
gave them power.
“The most important reality to
define is the meaning of one’s
human being-ness. That’s nobody’s
conversation but ours. We can’t
even allow them to enter in the
possibility of engaging in
conjecture. They can’t even wonder
about what it means to be Afrikan
people unless you’re Afrikan.
That’s nobody’s business but ours.”

CHUMPS

The Gospel According to
Malcolm X

“The world pushes the African
around because we give the
impression that we are chumps, not
champs, but chumps, weaklings,
falling over ourselves to follow
other people rather than our own
traditions.”

BROTHERHOOD

The Gospel According to
Dr. Jacob Carruthers

“Brotherhood or equality cannot
exist between the Eurasian
mentality and the African, therefore
Africa cannot be dependent on
European or Asian powers. We
may play them against each other
as Toussaint and Dessalines did,
but history gives us no reason to
believe that we can sit down as
equals and negotiate a world order
that will result in true African
liberation.”

SHE DELIGHTS IN
MAKING WAR

The Gospel According to
Honorable Elijah Muhammad

“America loves meddling into
other people’s affairs. She just
cannot stay out of other people’s
business, whether they be a twocents
worth soap-box teacher or
presidents and kings of countries.”
“America goes abroad and makes
war against other people. Then she
charges them with making war
against her when she is the one
who is guilty of the war-making.”
“The Bible says Allah (God) will
destroy those who delight
themselves in making war.”

MIS-EDUCATION

The Gospel According To
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

“A colonial or European
education…annihilates a peoples
belief in their names, in their
languages, in their environment, in
their heritage of struggle, in their
unity, in their capacities and
ultimately in themselves. It makes
them see their past as one
wasteland of non-achievement and
it makes them want to distance
themselves from that wasteland. It
makes them want to identify with
that which is furthest removed from
themselves”

RISE AGAINST
EXPLOITATION

The Gospel According To
Ologosun Obasanjo

“Africans had been globalized into
slavery, colonialism, poverty,
oppression and lop-sidedness of the
world’s economic situation.
Globalization being preached by
the West is “another form of
bondage for the black race.”

IMAGES

The Gospel According To
Dr. Anthony Browder

“We need to realize racism is an
unavoidable fact of life in America.
We need to understand how racist
images attack us constantly 24
hours a day. We need to understand
that whoever is responsible for
creating images will ultimately
determine your level of
consciousness. How you feel about
yourself is determined by how you
see yourself. And if the images that
are constantly projected about you
say that you are less than
human…then you will act less than
human. Others will regard you as
less than human.

I KNOW WHY THECAGED BIRD SINGS
Maya Angelou /Buckshot
LeFonque

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

WAR

The Gospel According To
Dr. Anthony Browder

“We need to begin to prepare
ourselves for war. We need to
begin to understand that we have
been under attack the moment that
we set foot on this land. And the
war takes on different forms. You
have low intensity warfare. You
have psychological warfare. You
have germ warfare. Drug warfare.
Alcohol warfare. Spiritual warfare.
Mental and Cultural warfare. We
have been under attack.”

DOMESTICATED

The Gospel According To
Booty Adams

“Liberation starts in the mind’s
eye. Nobody can set you free but
your self. If you don’t develop a
picture of what free is like,
somebody can put you in a box and
you wouldn’t know you were in a
prison. Instead of free, you can
become domesticated like a mutt or
a Billy goat.”

AFRIKAN ORIGIN OF
ELECTROMAGNETISM

The Gospel According To
Nur Ankh Amen

“The most powerful tool of
modern technology is Electrons.
The cover up and denial of prior
electronic use in Afrika allowed
many inventions to be patented,
creating massive profit for the
inventors and the new industry”
“Discoverers of electronics like
Volta, Hertz and Ben-Franklin
were merely Columbuses of the
Electronic Frontier.”

GUN CONTROL

The Gospel According To
Tyrone Powers

“White supremacist groups are
increasing their weapons and Black
folks are trading their guns in for
tennis shoes and toys. I agree we
need to stop killing each other off,
but gun control can take on
different meanings. It has to mean
controlling the minds of our young
people so they know when to use it
and who to use it on.