Assata’s torturous days and nights in the American prison system awaiting her trial...

Assata’s childhood years... family and societal influences that led to the woman she came to be...

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Speaking for marginalized voices everywhere, Assata introduces herself from a position of extreme pain. Bloodied past the point of recognition and hovering dangerously close to death, after the infamous incident on a New Jersey highway with state troopers, her narrative begins...

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Allow yourself to be a vessel for higher forces. The time has come to use every power, every gift, every vision that you have been given...No doubt. No fear. No negativity. No distraction. No nonsense. This is a different day. This is a different time. This is a different season. ~James Weeks

Our (Ifa’) tradition is a path for growth— it is not a path for instant gratification. Spiritual development is not a race nor a competition. What is meant to be, will be, in divine time.

...while you can pay people for their services , you can never pay for their Spirit. Either Spirit is present and engaged or it is not. You know it when you feel it...~James Weeks

We have to change our attitude. Everything is connected. We have to chip in together. Nature doesn’t need us. We need nature. We have to take care of the earth. We don’t have a choice.~James Weeks

It’s one thing to understand the historical forces that led to our widespread economic crisis as a people , but it’s quite another to identify cultural or spiritual practices that help keep us poor...Spiritual growth must be balanced with financial growth. What good is it if money comes our way, only to have it slip away because we fail to manage it well or properly invest so it can grow? ...Building wealth is deeper than knowing how to invest in the stock market, knowing how to create a business, knowing how to save money, knowing how to make a budget, — it is about necessary spiritual and psychological transformation that must occur for our survival as a people.

Opening up to spirit can cause a ripple effect throughout the universe if we accept and honor our unique gifts...I always tell clients it’s important to be open to the ancestors who step forward to assist us. Just because our ancestors might have made mistakes in their own lives does not mean they can’t help us. By working with us as a team, they can help heal and lift the legacy of our family. And as we work with them, we must not insist things should go our way. It’s important to let go of our expectations so our ancestors can give us the guidance we need.~James Weeks

...our code is the foundation of the digital technology that runs the world, a technology that most of the world would never think to associate with Africa...data is being streamed from today’s satellites back to earth via a code that originated in African spiritual systems...