THE LEGAL EAGLES COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER BLOG

GREAT NEWS...

2011-11-30T02:47:00.001-05:00

This blog is moving to a new address!! Join me at the new Legal Eagles Newsletter Blog...Same informative posts, new domain name: www.LegalEaglesFlyOrDie.com

I will be posting my very first post on the new blog today. Be sure to check it out.

Thank you for the continued love & support!

Love Always,

Elsie "Starface" Law

New Developments On The Way: 11-11-11

2011-10-28T13:30:00.000-04:00

I'm going into a self-imposed, semi-exile for exactly 2 weeks.

When I re-emerge, there will be new blogs, a revamped website, and new music- GOD WILLING!

See you in 14 days!

Lots of Love,

Elsie Law aka Starface

TODAY IS...

2011-10-28T12:04:00.001-04:00

PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY:The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying were acquitted of all charges on all counts in State Supreme Court. I could run out of ink printing the names of people who have been victimized by the inaptly named justice system.

The American justice system has been especially terroristic towards the African American community. Many community members can cite historic and personal accounts to prove this. Therefore, it would be foolhardy (at the least) to turn to a system that has methodically oppressed us, and request that they free us. We can only free ourselves through extreme discipline and intelligent planning.

As a community we have been too compliant with leaders who organize ineffective, delayed reactions. The only strategy that can save us in this last hour is one that calls for a collective code of conduct that will be conducive to improving the conditions of our community, and shifting the paradigm of how we are treated by outside entities. The first step of this code of conduct should be based on economics.

The old adage of “money talks,” still reigns true in the new millennium. Any political scientist worth his or her library card will tell you that: “Economic powerlessness equals political powerlessness,” and conversely “economic power equals political power.” This means that if we continue to allow our wealth to be extracted from our community, we will remain impotent.

The power of the collective “Black Dollar” is often discussed. However, that power has been left unchanneled. Today is the day to change that. A one-time boycott is not going to bring long-term change and respect to our community. Our community has launched boycotts before. Our success and ascension will be based on what we consistently do. For this reason, we should initiate “BUY BLACK FRIDAYS.”

BUY BLACK FRIDAYS is a small step towards our community acquiring power via controlling our economics. Every Friday, people who acknowledge the injustice and oppression that the African American community has been consistently subjected to should do one of the following:

Option #1: Spend $0 on Friday
Option #2: Spend no more than $10 on Friday
Option #3: Only Shop at Black Businesses on Friday
[PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ABOVE OPTIONS CAN & SHOULD BE EXERCISED ON A DAILY BASIS. However, we can all at the very least focus on Fridays. This way we can take a collective stand and build our collective discipline. Please remember that this is only Phase 1!].

To the people who are tempted to label “BUY BLACK FRIDAYS” as racist, I say this: In the big scheme of things, this is about right & wrong, justice & injustice. The African American community is a strong, proud community that has endured the brunt of America’s iron fist. We must stop the pounding. I feel that any fair-minded individual will concur, and join in.

ANY business that is privileged to enjoy the support of the African American community MUST return that support.

I thank you in advance for your effort and dedication.

-Elsie Law AKA Starface

Puppeteer and Creator of Elmo: Kevin Clash

2011-10-25T00:28:00.002-04:00

Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 1: From, “Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality” By: Elias Aboujaoude

2011-10-25T00:26:00.000-04:00

“The other crucial component to our cognitive life and to remembering is attention. All learning starts with the ability to focus and heed a teacher’s implorations to ‘pay attention.’ Yet our kids...and many of us, are showing an attention span in the classroom that is increasingly like their attention span on Facebook: Many have become more distractible and are unable to focus...for longer than it would take them to write a status update. This problem is suggested by the tremendous increase in the number of Ritalin prescriptions written over the last decade. Our children (and we) are less attentive than ever, and studies are questioning what role the virtual lifestyle may be playing in this.

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder of childhood, estimated to affect 3 percent to 5 percent of children, although adults are not spared. Children with ADHD typically show impairment across multiple areas of functioning, including, home, school, and peer relationships, and can have long-term problems with academic performance, professional success, and social development...

To date, several studies have shown a link between ADHD and excessive internet use. The largest of the studies conducted in school-age children involved 752 elementary students in South Korea and found that 33 percent of those who suffered from ADHD were ‘addicted’ to the internet. A study of an older age group- 216 college students in Taiwan- compared the rate of ADHD in adults who met the criteria for internet addiction to the rate of ADHD in adults who met criteria for Internet addiction to the rate of ADHD in those who were ‘normal’ users of the internet. The results showed that 3 percent of internet addicts had ADHD, compared to only 8 percent of non addicts. While these studies son not prove causality, the correlations are certainly striking and form a legitimate basis for questioning whether the internet may be making us attention-deficient.” -From, “Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality” By: Elias Aboujaoude

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-25T00:17:00.001-04:00

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your imformed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." -Harlan Ellison

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-24T11:41:00.000-04:00

"Friendship with one's self is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-21T00:15:00.001-04:00

“All that we call human history- money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery- is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." -C.S. Lewis

TODAY IS...

2011-10-21T00:12:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-20T16:22:00.000-04:00

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.” -C.S. Lewis

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-18T13:52:00.000-04:00

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath you feet." -Nadia Comaneci

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-17T07:56:00.000-04:00

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ” -Albert Einstein

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-16T21:05:00.000-04:00

“Don't exist.
Live.
Get out, explore.
Thrive.
Challenge authority.
Challenge yourself.
Evolve.
Become who you say you always will. Keep moving. Don't stop. Start the revolution. Become a freedom fighter. Become a superhero. Just because everyone doesn't know your name doesn't mean you dont matter." -Brian Krans

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-15T16:27:00.000-04:00

"Melanin is essentially involved in controlling all mental and physical body activities...The lack of melanin is directly related to the malfunctioning of the central nervous system, while the presence of melanin is directly associated with the proper functioning of the central nervous system. This is why we shouldn't do drugs because we're highly melanated people and the drugs- cocaine, even weed, all that stuff that you call liquor and brews, and lighting L's and all of this madness that we put in the system to destroy the system- it throws your melanin off." -Professor Griff

TODAY IS...

2011-10-14T08:03:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-14T07:59:00.001-04:00

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” -Helen Keller

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-13T15:38:00.001-04:00

"Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love." -Marilyn Monroe

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-12T03:09:00.000-04:00

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” -Franz Kafka

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-11T12:19:00.000-04:00

"The ways in which we act, interact, speak, read, think, and negotiate urges and goals online are remarkably different from the way we handle these activities offline. What may be more remarkable, however, is that our online traits are unconsciously being imported into our offline life, so that our idea of what a real-life community should be, for example, is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and our offline persona increasingly resembles that of our avatar." -Elias Aboujaoude

Video Of The Week: Media/Mind Wars

2011-10-10T10:36:00.004-04:00

"We are constantly plugged into something, or somebody, who is telling us how to think. If television is a drug, then the media is electronic crack...As you all know, at least I know you've heard, how addictive crack is." -Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-10T09:49:00.000-04:00

"Researchers show that television produces alpha waves in the brain, which produces a hypnotic effect on the mind; and with the production of alpha waves, your thinking process slows down and your consciousness shifts into a receptive mode." -Anthony Browder

TODAY IS...

2011-10-07T02:19:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-07T02:11:00.000-04:00

"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." -James Baldwin

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-05T10:24:00.000-04:00

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” -Thomas Jefferson

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-03T09:52:00.001-04:00

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. ” -William Faulkner

Quote Of The Day

2011-10-01T15:10:00.000-04:00

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” -Albert Einstein

TODAY IS...

2011-09-30T09:18:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-30T09:06:00.000-04:00

"BELIEVE while others are doubting.

PLAN while others are playing.

STUDY while others are sleeping.

DECIDE while others are delaying.

PREPARE while others are daydreaming.

BEGIN while others are procrastinating.

WORK while others are wishing.

SAVE while others are wasting.

LISTEN while others are talking.

SMILE while others are frowning.

COMMEND while others are criticizing.

PERSIST while others are quitting." -Author Unknown

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-29T13:02:00.000-04:00

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” -Leonardo da Vinci

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-28T10:35:00.000-04:00

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” -Albert Camus

TODAY IS...

2011-09-23T07:54:00.001-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-23T07:49:00.000-04:00

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” -Dalai Lama XIV

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-22T13:15:00.000-04:00

“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-21T02:22:00.000-04:00

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Confucius

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-20T10:46:00.000-04:00

“I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic. ” -Marilyn Monroe

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-19T12:11:00.000-04:00

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” -Maya Angelou

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-17T21:59:00.001-04:00

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” -Maya Angelou

TODAY IS...

2011-09-16T12:40:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-16T12:10:00.001-04:00

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” -Khalil Gibran

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-15T11:42:00.000-04:00

“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand. They didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.” -Jodi Picoult

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-14T13:19:00.001-04:00

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours." -Hermann Hesse

Video Of The Week: A Documentary On The Ambush That Killed Fred Hampton Sr.

2011-09-13T11:44:00.001-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-13T09:55:00.000-04:00

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." -Kahil Gibran

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-12T10:13:00.001-04:00

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster." -Dalai Lama XIV

TODAY IS...

2011-09-09T01:30:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-09T01:26:00.000-04:00

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging." -Maya Angelou

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-07T10:21:00.000-04:00

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." -Mark Twain

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-06T11:16:00.000-04:00

"Some are smart, but they are not wise." -Proverb

TODAY IS...

2011-09-02T12:51:00.000-04:00

2011-09-02T12:37:00.000-04:00

"The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it." -Thomas S. Monson

Quote Of The Day

2011-09-01T17:23:00.000-04:00

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." -Ernest Hemingway

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-31T16:19:00.000-04:00

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." -Mitch Albom

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-30T09:21:00.000-04:00

"In everything, truth surpasses the imitation and copy." -Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-29T08:48:00.001-04:00

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years." -Audrey Hepburn

TODAY IS...

2011-08-26T11:55:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-26T11:44:00.000-04:00

"You never know who is watching you and learning from your actions." -Dionne Warwick

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-25T14:48:00.000-04:00

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places- and there are so many- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." -Howard Zinn

TODAY IS...

2011-08-19T00:09:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-19T00:06:00.000-04:00

"Anybody can become angry- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way- that is not within everybody's power, and is not easy." -Aristotle

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-18T10:39:00.000-04:00

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope" -Maya Angelou

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-17T07:57:00.000-04:00

"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else." -Lena Horne

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-15T14:43:00.000-04:00

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." -Elie Wiesel

Video Of The Week

2011-08-14T15:32:00.001-04:00

Justus Willams- Teenage Chess Champion.

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-14T14:34:00.000-04:00

"You have to stay aligned with your passion because as you start to move forward, you have to make sure that you remember what you started off doing it for." -Dr. Sampson Davis

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-13T10:34:00.000-04:00

"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not."

Dreams vs. Vision

2011-08-12T11:46:00.004-04:00

“The founders of the United States were men of vision, who used the land of others and the labor and knowledge of others to make their vision a reality. They have sustained their position of power and authority over Africans in America by destroying the Africans’ ability to visualize while encouraging them to dream.

There is a fundamental difference between a vision and a dream. Dreams are abstract illusions that occur when one is in an unconscious state of mind. Dreams dry up ‘like a raisin in the sun’ and lead to frustration, anger, and despair. Visions occur during a state of heightened awareness and provide insight into areas where the mind is trained and focused. Visions are capable of connecting a mind to a higher source of consciousness and empowerment. This is a spiritual law which leads to the fulfillment of thoughts and ideas, and, therefor, happiness.

It has been written: ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish, but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.’ This statement implies that the quality of your life is directly proportional to your ability to develop a vision and implement it throughout your lifetime. If this is done correctly, the power of that vision will be projected into the future and manifested for generations to come.

The Creator has given each of us the power of visualization, so that we may create a world of our own design. This power is negated if it is not used correctly and it will never be given to a people by a government or a religious system which once enslaved them. This message is of critical importance for Africans in America...Africans in America must develop the desire and the ability to create a vision for our future.” -From, “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

TODAY IS...

2011-08-12T09:13:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-12T09:10:00.000-04:00

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep." -Robert Frost

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-11T13:30:00.000-04:00

"Conscience is the chamber of justice." -Unknown

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-09T08:49:00.000-04:00

"Worrying works- ninety percent of the things we worry about never happen." -Unknown

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-08T00:27:00.000-04:00

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." -Atticus Finch

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-06T12:22:00.000-04:00

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." -Proverbs 23:7

TODAY IS...

2011-08-05T14:53:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-05T14:51:00.000-04:00

"No psychological weapon is more potent than example." -J. Paul Getty

Definitions Better Than Webster's: Part 32

2011-08-02T09:11:00.000-04:00

FREEDOM:
"Freedom is more than the right to do what you want, when you want, simply because you can. The cemeteries, prisons, hospitals, and streets are full of people who did what they wanted to do, at great expense to themselves, their families, and innocent bystanders.

Freedom means little by itself; it must be tempered with knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual direction for it to be of lasting value. You should desire the freedom to access information which will allow you to make the best choices possible; not just for yourself, but for your family, your descendants, and for the planet. We are all in this world together, and the freedoms that we exercise determine whether we will make this world a heaven or a hell." -Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-08-02T08:35:00.000-04:00

"He that can have patience can have what he will." -Benjamin Franklin

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-30T16:02:00.000-04:00

"Be cautious of the type of music that is listened to in you home. Rhythmic beats are the very best way to deliver self-destructive thoughts into the mind and neutralize the creative spirit within us." -Anthony Browder

Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2- “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

2011-07-29T20:41:00.000-04:00

href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GLgEpr7-t7Q/Thu7OmA1trI/AAAAAAAAASs/eQh1g_buujQ/s1600/Survival%2BStrategies.jpg">“Warfare takes on many forms and there are numerous ways to neutralize an adversary. They can be subdued by: low intensity warfare, psychological warfare, germ warfare, chemical warfare, infanticide, genocide, and mentacide (induced madness). Not all wars are fought in order to destroy an opponent, sometimes the objective is to simply terrorize them, or to contain and exploit them.

One of the most damaging forms of attack is spiritual warfare because it is strategically designed to destroy the soul of its victims and render them more easily susceptible to other forms of non-lethal assaults.” -From, “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 1- “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

2011-07-29T20:39:00.000-04:00

href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GLgEpr7-t7Q/Thu7OmA1trI/AAAAAAAAASs/eQh1g_buujQ/s1600/Survival%2BStrategies.jpg">“We would know that the early Greek and Roman Christians portrayed Jesus as a person of African ancestry. Justinian I, the Eastern Roman emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 A.C.E., commissioned coins to be minted with the face of an African Jesus on one side and his own distinctively European face on the other. Many Europeans of this era revered Africans and openly worshiped the “Black Madonna and Child” in shrines throughout Europe. As Europeans became more nationalistic, they developed a psychological need to create God in their own image, and the complexion of their religious icons changed from black to white. When Europeans became to colonize the world and enslave people of color, they imposed this new image of God on those the conquered.

Michelangelo’s painting of Adam and Eve in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy is still accepted by people throughout the world as the legitimate likeness of the first couple. No one suspected that Michelangelo’s aunt and uncle were the models for the painting in 1508. Most of us have seen the image of Jesus the Christ and his disciples as portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci in his painting “The Last Supper.” We have been captivated by the beauty of this fifteenth century masterpiece, but few of us know that da Vinci hired a model to pose as Jesus, and 12 convicts to pose as his disciples. In reality, the image that we have held in such high esteem is unworthy of the admiration it has been given. It is a technically flawless painting but a terrible deceptive religious icon.” -From, “Survival Strategies For Africans In America” By: Anthony Browder

TODAY IS...

2011-07-29T15:42:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-29T15:35:00.000-04:00

"Learn to think seven generations into the future, and begin today to establish the quality of life you wish for your descendants to live." -Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-28T07:52:00.001-04:00

"Imagine enslaving tens of millions of men, women, and children and working them from sun up to sun down, from birth until death. Imagine not having to pay these people for their labor and being allowed, by law, to rape and breed them in order to increase their numbers for you personal benefit. Imagine these conditions lasting for over three hundred years, and seeing your family accumulate a vast fortune that is passed on from generation to generation. Imagine no longer, because this is an American reality, and it is one aspect of the legacy or Africans in America." -Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-26T13:06:00.001-04:00

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." -African Proverb

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-25T07:07:00.001-04:00

"Good qualities are good qualities. Look for them regardless of the outside packaging."

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-24T19:39:00.000-04:00

"Somewhere in the annals of European literature someone wrote that 'ignorance is bliss;' but in the ancient record of African philosophy is the belief that 'ignorance is sinful.' Most of us have been conditioned to live our lives in a sinful state of blissful ignorance while thinking we were actually being saved. If we equated ignorance with sinfulness we would be more inclined to conduct independent research into the origins of our current beliefs and practices. We would then become aware of many startling revelations." -Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-23T01:22:00.000-04:00

"When people are separated from the deeper meaning of life, they suffer many hardships." -Anthony Browder

TODAY IS...

2011-07-22T06:51:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-22T06:47:00.000-04:00

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" -Yoga

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-19T07:51:00.000-04:00

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." -Mother Teresa

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-18T13:01:00.000-04:00

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." -Emmet Fox

Prejudice vs Racism

2011-07-16T13:42:00.000-04:00

"All people have prejudices; this may be considered to be one of humankind's great failings. However, for a group to be legitimately classified as racist, it must possess the power to impose its prejudices on members of other ethnic groups. Power transforms a 'pre-judged belief' into an ideology that is popularized, legitimized, and finally, incorporated into the legislative, judicial, religious, and social system designed to control the powerless." -From, "Survival Strategies For Africans In America" By: Anthony Browder

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-16T13:39:00.000-04:00

"Disparaging comments made in jest, whether in the lyrics of a song or a conversation, have a potentially lingering effect and must be neutralized before they become ingrained in the consciousness of the society." -Anthony Browder

TODAY IS...

2011-07-15T15:09:00.000-04:00

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-15T15:06:00.000-04:00

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows." -Audrey Hepburn

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-14T13:55:00.000-04:00

"It is forbidden to kill. Therefore, all murderers are punished, unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -Voltaire

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-13T09:51:00.001-04:00

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy." -Yves Saint-Laurent

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-12T00:50:00.000-04:00

"If more athletes, coaches, and trainers would incorporate nutrition into their daily routine the way they do physical exercise, they would stand a better chance of becoming champions. Because they don't, the average life expectancy of a professional athlete is fifty-four years of age. Believe it or not, many a wino's life expectancy is longer than that. One day, when researchers stop being so awed by the game of sports, they will see a thing call sports abuse. Then athletes will learn to play sports without abusing their bodies." -Dick Gregory

Dick Gregory On Police Brutality

2011-07-11T23:19:00.002-04:00

“The relationship between Black folks and many White cops in this country is so far out of hand, and at some point we Black folks have to start taking some of that blame. We let police brutality run rampant through our community. There are thousands of Black police officers across this country. When have you ever read in the paper that a Black cop handcuffed a White person and shot them in the back of the head?...They don’t mess with White folks because they know that White folks won’t tolerate it, plain and simple. When we Black folks decide that we are not going to tolerate police brutality, then it will stop. There’s something wrong with a people who have more fear for their enemy than they have love for their children. We have to understand and say to America and the police that enough is enough. We can ay it through commerce and shut this country down.” -From, “Callus On My Soul” By: Dick Gregory

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-11T20:16:00.000-04:00

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote Of The Day

2011-07-10T11:41:00.000-04:00

"Although America has only one-twentieth of the world's population, we consume 67 percent of the world's drugs. So now you know the rest of the world doesn't have the drug problem that America has. We must then ask ourselves, is this the price we pay for racism? Is this the price we pay for putting our foot on one group of people to make them stay down? Is this the price we pay to let the foot stay on us, without fighting back?" -Dick Gregory