Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)

You Can’t Ignore Your Calling.- The harvest will come. If you plant consistently. If you nurture your dreams. If you think long-term. If you let Spirit in. If you are not afraid to fail. If you listen to the right voices. If you do not give up.

Rather than isolate ourselves in these challenging times, the sacred teachings of Ifa say there should be a gathering together like trees do to form a forest and we should not walk alone.

Perception Precedes Being...You Are Who You Believe You Are...

Become Aware of the Power of the Media

And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products ( oil, drugs, fruit, gold).

Racism and White Supremacy are the most Persistent Problems Confronting Africans in America

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In a chess game, both opponents have the comfort of knowing how each piece can and can’t move. Both the black knight and the white knight are limited to the same options. And that goes for the king, queen,rooks, and bishops also. Life, however, isn’t like that. It’s random, hostile, and impulsive. You can’t sleep on any man, because no man is a game piece. The weakest and most frightened man might...

When the guards unlocked the back of the truck , they would be facing an armed, defrosted, ninjutsu warrior who did not want to take their lives, but would do whatever it took, by any means necessary, to survive. That was my plan. The girl was right. In the face of an attempt at a violation of my manhood, it would be freedom or death.

It was a shake-up no one admitted was happening. The unspoken truth: no one wanted us to learn or grow or change. They needed us to remain in physical stagnation and bondage and in a criminal state of mind.

Sitting in the exclusivity of a Grand Banks yacht, I felt like I was in the vineyard, covered with vines. Vines trail and creep and climb and wind themselves around a person, place or thing. They clasp themselves on and hold tight , all connected. Vines are an entanglement.

Crazy watching Amir play every position for his team, even center, even though he wasn’t tall enough for that...As I watched, I plotted just to run him, shake him down ‘til he was out of breath. That’s why there’s a team. One man can’t play every position and shouldn’t have to...

Silence comes to men who, after learning what they did not already know or understand, become thoughtful. Thoughtfulness leads to consideration. Consideration leads to feelings. Feelings lead to brotherhood. Brotherhood leads to unity. Unity leads to defense against perceived and actual threats and injustices.

Our bodies contain melanin from head to toe, inside and outside...Melanin is the most important, the most complex, and the most perfect molecule in the human body...This Black, light-absorbing molecule called melanin is recognized as one of the primary keys of life. Melanin is what makes people human. Melanin connects people to the creative forces of the universe.

Naturally, adults must have good television viewing habits before they can teach good viewing habits to children. It is important that adults become aware of the powerful influence of television and then develop a discriminating eye. ~Anthony T. Browder

It is important for fatherless sons to know that it is okay to love their broken mothers, but to separate that from what they should respect and view as an example. Otherwise their relationships would forever be fucked up. Confused sons would choose to love a woman who is a whore same as his mother. Or, confused sons who hate their mothers would hate women all together.

I had to do the math of life. First, Lavidicus is a victim. The word victim has about three definitions. A victim is a person who suffers because of a destructive action. A victim is a person who is deceived or cheated by his own emotions or ignorance or by the dishonesty of others. A victim is also an animal served up as a sacrifice. Lavidicus was all three.

Black has always been. and will continue to be, a source of power and influence...

In the 18th century , racist scientists used biology and anthropology in a fraudulent attempt to prove that the ‘negro’ was inferior to Caucasians...in the last quarter of the 20th century, scientists began stepping out of the shadow of their racist predecessors...

“So there you have it, the negro-a race of dead people with a dead history and no hope for resurrection as long as they remained ignorant of their past”~Anthony T. Browder

The author’s intro, the author’s preface and the author’s instruction on How to Use this Book.... “The mind, like any computer, is only capable of responding to the information which is in its memory...the equation is simple; if limits are placed on your thinking, then limits are automatically placed on your ability to view reality and act intelligently.

A man has to learn his surroundings swiftly. A man has to study character and characteristics and names and faces and scars and jewels and kicks. Who’s who? Knowing the answer to that question is the strategy and solution to survival. And of course a man can only know who’s who and what’s what by studying and watching over time.

Tell me your secrets... I’m not going to lie and say that I don’t have any secrets. But I just hope that if I tell you mine, you won’t get angry about any of them, and that you’ll always trust me...

I can feel that you are good because I am good at that sort of thing. But feelings and my masterful intuition are not admissible in a court of law. They mean nothing. They are meaningless. ~The Lawyer

Agony hung in the air, agony and strife. The weight of being isolated and alone was crushing each of them one by one. I was not happy, but I was not crushed. For some of these guys, the last person they would want to be left alone with was them self. They reacted as though they were being tortured m, but there was no one in the box with them but themselves.