As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day today -we remember the power, light, inspiration and education of his words
“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. Every now and then I wonder what I want them to say…I’d like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I’d like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try to feed the hungry. I want you to be able to say that day that I did try in my life to clothe those who were naked. I want you to say, on that day, that I did try, in my life, to visit those who were in prison. I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity…” The Drum Major Instinct” (1968)

Martin Luther King Jr. Stamp-Ghana-1968

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant…The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy…Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals…Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love…Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men… We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools…Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere…Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective…”

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“I come here tonight & plead with ya, believe in urself & believe that you’re somebody…nobody else can do this for us, no document can do this for us, no Lincolnian emancipation proclamation can do this for us, no Kennedisonian or Johnsonian civil rights bill can do this for us, if the negro is to be free he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul & sign with a pen an ink of self assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation…don’t let anybody take your manhood, be proud of our heritage…we don’t have anything to be ashamed of, somebody told a lie one day, they couched it in language, they made everything black ugly & evil, look in your dictionary & see the synonyms of the word black- it’s always something degrading, low & sinister look at the word white, it’s always something pure..well I want to get the language right tonight, I want to get the language so right that everybody here will cry out YES I AM BLACK & I’M PROUD OF IT, I AM BACK & BEAUTIFUL!”

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”Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God….My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary…Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world….” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Echoing the late great Nina Simone -today is a New Day, A New Dawn, A New Life for all of us and we should all be feeling good! As we welcome in the New Year 2013, I declare it the year of ReClaiming -all that we cherish, all that we have lost , all that we have put aside in place of other unfulfilling and unproductive things, and all that we have allowed to be taken away from us because we took our eyes off the prize. Most of all, it is the new year of ReClaiming our Humanity and Faith in ourselves and that which is higher than us and serves as our spirit guide. 2012 was the awakening of us all to prepare us for the ReClaiming period. The place is now , the time is here- RECLAIM!

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning“. T. S. Eliot

AFIHYIA PA , felice anno nuovo, gelukkige nuwe jaar, Boldog Új Évet!, an nou fericit, سنة جديدة سعيدة, glückliches Neues Jahr, ハッピーニューイヤー, manigong bagong taon, feliz año nuevo , Καλή Χρονιά, feliz ano novo, Buon Capo d’Anno, Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu, Maligayang Bagong Taon, Nav Varsh Ki Badhaai, Wilujeng Tahun Baru, Bonne année, Aide shoma mobarak,Shanah tovah, etc.! We can only pledge to do our best but with great Faith all shall be well! Let’s Conspire Globally To Inspire the Reclaiming of who we truly are -our better, higher and more faithful selves!

Kwanzaa Day 7 (January 1) Imani : Faith

“Nothing is certain. Science tells us that there is no thing at all that we can be absolutely certain is true. Nonetheless, there are things that each of us believes, to a certainty, are true. What fills that bill for you? The belief in the Creator? The belief in the ancestors? Some believe in nothing….

They milled and mingled and stomped their feet against the cold, in their thousands, in their hundreds of thousands, and the liquor flowed. They cheered to warm themselves in the cold night, as they marked the passing of the year in the place called Time. They laughed and sang. For joy, or to cast out fear? The brilliantly shining talisman stood upon the tower in the center of Time, in the city that is the brain of the country that rules the world. And this image was multiplied, electronically, a billionfold.

Through science, a belief in science above all, they fashioned an empire that spans the globe. The gods of math and science and commerce, the Trinity of the West, have measured everything, to everything assigned a number, a digit. And now what?

And then the shining globe atop the Square at the center of Time, and the World, began to fall. And they prayed to the god of number intoning the sacred single digits backwards to the “O” that is nothing and also the infinite, the circle……

Scant minutes afterwards, the sea of white dispersed, becoming lost in a city of many hues, in the Empire Nation that is becoming increasingly diverse. And is it not written that the meek shall inherit the earth?

Now that numbers have done their work, and the world is united as one, the old creeds, the original faith shall begin to blossom again. If science has proven that nothing is certain, then even science itself is purely belief. What do you belive in?

This is the 7th, and final, day of Kwanzaa. Today we celebrate IMANI (Faith). Today we renew our BELIEF in God, our people, our teachers and our leaders, and the virtue and victory of our struggle IMANI!“ READ MORE

LOVE IS WHAT WE NEED….GIVE THE MOST PRICELESS GIFT THIS SEASON =LOVE

“If there is no struggle..there is no progress..those who profess to Favor Freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground…they want the ocean without the awful roar of it’s many waters..Power concedes nothing without demand.” Fredrick Douglas-1857

Freedom is the New Life! “Free Yourself & the rest will follow”! the Global Fusion Way