Don’t be the asshole who wants to be seen and celebrated all day, every day. Be cool. Take it easy. Carry out your plans in life, slow and steady. Push hard...

I’m telling my story so Black people worldwide will know that we wasn’t always fucked up. Also, that a good life takes great effort and sacrifice, but feels so much better than what we all got now...

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs.

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African Intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs...

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The spirit never forgets the way home...a soft comforting awareness of some remembered ratifying greatness...health and hope and foresight enough to understand the relative seasonality of our people’s temporary adversity. Of what consequence is a brief mortal moment against the affirming weight of the ages?

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...did you know that the Mali Empire introduced a written governing constitution at a place called Kurukan Fuga in the year 1235?...and the French go on so incessantly about their Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789. You’d have thought that they were the first in the world to think about such things...the very French that colonized and enslaved the Malians.

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The first line of academic hostility to the notion of Africans having a past is to distract everyone in the world from searching for it...Such is the West’s hostility to the very notion that Black people might have done something great as an outcome, not of individuals formed by them, but rather as products of great civilizations formed by their own people...the consequence of the West’s ceaseless cultural antipathy toward us, is that they have defeated us finally by causing us to think so little of ourselves. They have sought to guarantee our defeat by diverting us from even seeking to discover ourselves. But I am not distracted...

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July 5, 1852...

In the swirling stone face of the escarpment, Yehene pointed out to us pockets where homes had been carved out and decorated with elaborately fashioned dark hard-wood doors. The doors , Yehene told us, were displayed as works of art in homes around the world. In centuries past, the cliff had provided refuge for the Dogon from slave hunters. Now it further served as a Dogon burial ground.

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Most of the works here were authored by Africans between 600 A.D. and 1500 A.D....They are not all here, of course, but African literatures from this period are virtually limitless. Epics, poetry,diaries,letters-written in our own African languages, many in Arabic, some now translated into French... have no books been written in America about what is here?—has BEEN here, for what, more than a thousand years?

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