Lessons from Marcus Garvey: Lesson 6: Find your purpose be happy

"Life is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure..."- Marcus Garvey 


Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or Africa for Africans
                 Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey
                  First published in 1923 

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

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 

Source: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/lifesamp.asp

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.