Chantel DaCosta is a Jamaican Writer and Researcher. This is a platform to share my experiences and journey to becoming the person I want to be.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 5: Masters of your Destiny
"I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it...Nature is bountiful; nature is resourceful and nature is willing to obey [your]command..."- Marcus Garvey
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans
Complied by Amy Jacques Garvey
First published in 1923
http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Phil%20and%20Opinions.pdf
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 4 Be Ambitious
"AMBITION is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul; to want that which is worthwhile and strive for it; and to go on without without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction."-Marcus Garvey
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans
Complied by Amy Jacques Garvey
First published in 1923
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 3 Charting Your Destiny
We Are Arbiters of Our Own Destiny
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of
0ur own creative genius we make ourselves what we want to
be. Follow always that great law.
Let the sky and God be our limit, and Eternity our
measurement. There is no height to which we cannot climb
by using the active intelligence of our own minds. Mind
creates, and as much as we desire in Nature we can have
through the creation of our own minds. - Marcus Garvey
Printed in the Negro World, 6 June 1925, as a front-page editorial; written in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Original headlines omitted. Creed reprinted in slightly revised form, under the title "African Fundamentalism," as a UNIA poster, sold by mail order through the Negro World by Amy Jacques Garvey, 1925.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 2 Self-Reliance
"CHANCE has never yet satisfied the hopes of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom. "- Marcus Garvey
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans
Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey
First published in 1923
http://www.jpanafrican.com/ebooks/eBook%20Phil%20and%20Opinions.pdf
Monday, May 27, 2013
Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 1- Race First and African Fundamentalism
New 25-day series, Lessons from Marcus Garvey. The Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey (August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940), is Jamaica’s first National Hero, pioneering Pan- African philosopher, visionary, Black nationalist and political leader.
Lately I have been reading a lot of Garvey particularly, Tony Martin’s Race First and Marcus Garvey Message to the People (the majority of the books are available in Google Books).
Lately I have been reading a lot of Garvey particularly, Tony Martin’s Race First and Marcus Garvey Message to the People (the majority of the books are available in Google Books).
Marcus Garvey’s African Fundamentalism
The time has come for the Negro to forget and cast
behind him his hero worship and adoration of other races, and to start out
immediately, to create and emulate heroes of his own.
We must canonize our own saints, create our own
martyrs, and elevate to positions of fame and honor black men and women who
have made their distinct contributions to our racial history. Sojourner Truth
is worthy of the place of sainthood alongside of Joan of Arc; Crispus Attucks
and George William Gordon are entitled to the halo of martyrdom with no less
glory than that of the martyrs of any other race. Toussaint L'Ouverture's
brilliancy as a soldier and statesman outshone that of a Cromwell, Napoleon and
Washington; hence, he is entitled to the highest place as a hero among men.
Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace,
whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see
good and perfection in ourselves?
Ours the Right to Our Doctrine
We must inspire a literature and promulgate a doctrine
of our own without any apologies to the powers that be. The right is ours and
God's. Let contrary sentiment and cross opinions go to the winds. Opposition to
race independence is the weapon of the enemy to defeat the hopes of an
unfortunate people. We are entitled to our own opinions and not obligated to or
bound by the opinions of others.
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