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Hold on but ya can't use my phone. I'ma test this out right quick on y'all Now keep in mind I'm an artist and I'm sensitivie about my shit So y'all be nice about it, alright Sisters how y'all feel, brothers y'all alright Let me see how y'all groove to this Alright, I'm gettin' tired of your shit You don't never buy me nothin' See every time you come around You got to bring Jim, James, Paul, and Tyrone See why can't we be by ourselves, sometimes See I've been having this on my mind for a long time I just want it to be, you and me, like It used to be, Baby But ya don't know how to act So matter of fact, I think ya better call Tyrone (call him) And Tell him come on, help you get your shit (come on, come on, come on) You need to call Tyrone (call him) And tell him I said come on Now everytime I ask you for a little cash You say no and turn right around and ask me for some ass Oh, Well hold up, listen partna, I ain't no cheap thrill Cause Miss Badu is always comin' for real you know the deal, nigga Every time we go somewhere, I gotta reach down in my purse To pay your way and your homeboys way and sometimes your cousin's way They don't never have to pay, don't have no cars Hang around in bars try to hang around with stars Like Badu, I'ma tell you the truth Showing groove or get the boot I think ya better (call him) And tell him come on, help you get your shit You need to call Tyrone (call him) Hold on but ya can't use my phone Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

And now they mock me in song; I am a byword to them. They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; The Books of the Bible Job 30:1 “But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone. 3 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground, 4 they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom. 5 They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief. 6 In the gullies of wadis they must live, in holes in the ground, and in the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. 8 A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land. 9 “And now they mock me in song; I am a byword to them. 10 They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. 11 Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. 12 On my right hand the rabble rise up; they send me sprawling, and build roads for my ruin. 13 They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them. 14 As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. 15 Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. 16 “And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. 17 The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. 18 With violence he seizes my garment; he grasps me by the collar of my tunic. 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry to you and you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me. 21 You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. 22 You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. 23 I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. 24 “Surely one does not turn against the needy, when in disaster they cry for help. 25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? 26 But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. 27 My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still; days of affliction come to meet me. 28 I go about in sunless gloom; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29 I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches. 30 My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. 31 My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. New Revised Standard Version Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Become a Member! Members receive access to our exclusive library of articles and videos ad other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Sharing is caring. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

No more critical situation ever faced the Negroes of America than that of today. New York City. June 26, 1934. No more critical situation ever faced the Negroes of America than that of today-not in 1830, nor in 1861, nor in 1867. More than ever the appeal of the Negro for elementary justice falls on deaf ears. Three-fourths of us are disfranchised; yet no writer on democratic reform, no third-party movement says a word about Negroes. The Bull Moose crusade in 1912 refused to notice them; the La Follette uprising in 1924 was hardly aware of them; the Socialists still keep them in the background. Negro children are systematically denied education; when the National Educational Association asks for federal aid to education it permits discrimination to be perpetuated by the present local authorities. Once or twice a month Negroes convicted of no crime are openly and publicly lynched, and even burned; yet a National Crime Convention is brought to perfunctory and unwilling notice of this only by mass picketing and all but illegal agitation. When a man with every qualification is refused a position simply because his great-grandfather was black, there is not a ripple of comment or protest. Long before the depression Negroes in the South were losing “Negro” jobs, those assigned them by common custom-poorly paid and largely undesirable toil, but nevertheless life-supporting. New techniques, new enterprises, mass production, impersonal ownership and control have been largely displacing the skilled white and Negro worker in tobacco manufacturing, in iron and steel, in lumbering and mining, and in transportation. Negroes are now restricted more and more to common labor and domestic service of the lowest paid and worst kind. In textile, chemical and other manufactures Negroes were from the first nearly excluded, and just as slavery kept the poor white out of profitable agriculture, so freedom prevents the poor Negro from finding a place in manufacturing. The worldwide decline in agriculture has moreover carried the mass of black farmers, despite heroic endeavor among the few, down to the level of landless tenants and peons. The World War and its wild aftermath seemed for a moment to open a new door; two million black workers rushed North to work in iron and steel, make automobiles and pack meat, build houses and do the heavy toil in factories. They met first the closed trade union which excluded them from the best paid jobs and pushed them into the low-wage gutter, denied them homes and mobbed them. Then they met the depression. Since 1929 Negro workers, like white workers, have lost their jobs, have had mortgages foreclosed on their farms and homes, have used up their small savings. But, in the case of the Negro worker, everything has been worse in larger or smaller degree; the loss has been greater and more permanent. Technological displacement, which began before the depression, has been accelerated, while unemployment and falling wages struck black men sooner, went to lower levels and will last longer. The colored people of America are coming to face the fact quite calmly that most white Americans do not like them, and are planning neither for their survival, nor for their definite future if it involves free, self-assertive modern manhood. This does not mean all Americans. A saving few are worried about the Negro problem; a still larger group are not ill-disposed, but they fear prevailing public opinion. The great mass of Americans are, however, merely representatives of average humanity. They muddle along with their own affairs and scarcely can be expected to take seriously the affairs of strangers or people whom they partly fear and partly despise. For many years it was the theory of most Negro leaders that this attitude was the insensibility of ignorance and inexperience, that white America did not know of or realize the continuing plight of the Negro. Accordingly, for the last two decades, we have striven by book and periodical, by speech and appeal, by various dramatic methods of agitation, to put the essential facts before the American people. Today there can be no doubt that Americans know the facts; and yet they remain for the most part indifferent and unmoved. The peculiar position of Negroes in America offers an opportunity. Negroes today cast probably 2,000,000 votes in a total of 40,000,000 and their vote will increase. This gives them, particularly in northern cities, and at critical times, a chance to hold a very considerable balance of power and the mere threat of this being used intelligently and with determination may often mean much. The consuming power of 2,800,000 Negro families has recently been estimated at $166,000,000 a month—a tremendous power when intelligently directed. Their manpower as laborers probably equals that of Mexico or Yugoslavia. Their illiteracy is much lower than that of Spain or Italy. Their estimated per capita wealth about equals that of Japan. For a nation with this start in culture and efficiency to sit down and await the salvation of a white God is idiotic. With the use of their political power, their power as consumers, and their brainpower, added to that chance of personal appeal which proximity and neighborhood always give to human to human beings, Negroes can develop in the United States an economic nation within a nation, able to work through inner cooperation to found its own institutions, to educate its genius, and at the same time, without mob violence or extremes of race hatred, to keep in helpful touch and cooperate with the mass of the nation. This has happened more often than most people realize, in the case of groups not so obviously separated from the mass of people as are American Negroes. It must happen in our case or there is no hope for the Negro in America. Any movement toward such a program is today hindered by the absurd Negro philosophy of Scatter, Suppress, Wait, Escape. There are even many of our educated young leaders who think that because the Negro problem is not in evidence where there are few or no Negroes, this indicates a way out! They think that the problem of race can be settled by ignoring it and suppressing all reference to it. They think that we have only to wait in silence for the white people to settle the problem for us; and finally and predominantly, they think that the problem of twelve million Negro people, mostly poor, ignorant workers, is going to be settled by having their more educated and wealthy classes gradually and continually escape from their race into the mass of the American people, leaving the rest to sink, suffer and die. Proponents of this program claim, with much reason, that the plight of the masses is not the fault of the emerging classes. For the slavery and exploitation that reduced Negroes to their present level or at any rate hindered them from rising, the white world is to blame. Since the age-long process of raising a group is through the escape of its upper class into welcome fellowship with risen peoples, the Negro intelligentsia would submerge itself if it bent its back to the task of lifting the mass of people. There is logic in this answer, but futile logic. If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity. It may be said that this matter of a nation within a nation has already been partially accomplished in the organization of the Negro church, the Negro school and the Negro retail business, and despite all the justly due criticism, the result has been astonishing. The great majority of American Negroes are divided not only for religious but for a large number of social purposes into self-supporting economic units, self-governed, self-directed. The greatest difficulty is that these organizations have no logical and reasonable standards and do not attract the fines, most vigorous and best educated Negroes. When all these things are taken into consideration it becomes clearer to more and more American Negroes that, through voluntary and increased segregation, by careful autonomy and planned economic organization, they may build so strong and efficient a unit that twelve million men can no longer be refused fellowship and equality in the United States. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

But if you're thinking about my baby, ot don't matter if you're black or white Hey (what?) Turn it off (dad, this is the best part) Turn it off (no) It's too late for this, turn it off (Dad, this is the best part, come on) No, turn it off now (No, this is, I wanna listen to it okay?) 'Cause it's too loud and disturbs the neighbors, turn it off now Yeah right, too late? Sure, eat this I took my baby on a Saturday bang Boy, is that girl with you? We're one and the same Now I believe in miracles And a miracle has happened tonight But if you're thinking about my baby It don't matter if you're black or white They print my message in the Saturday Sun I had to tell them, I ain't second to none And I told 'em 'bout equality And it's true, either you're wrong or you're right But, if you're thinkin' about my baby It don't matter if you're black or white I'm tired of this devil I'm tired of this stuff I'm tired of this business Oh, when the going gets rough I ain't scared of your brother I ain't scared of no sheets I ain't scare of nobody Go, when you're gonna get mean Protection for gangs, clubs and nations Causing grief in human relations It's a turf war on a global scale I'd rather hear both sides of the tale See, it's not about races Just places, faces Where your blood comes from is where your space is I've seen the bright get duller I'm not gonna spend my life being a color Do you agree with me When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye? But, if you're thinkin' about my baby It don't matter if you're black or white I said, if you're thinkin' of being my baby It don't matter if you're black or white I said, if you're thinkin' of being my brother It don't matter if you're black or white Alright, alright (ooh, ooh) Alright (yeah, yeah, yeah now) Alright, alright (ooh, ooh) Shamone (yeah, yeah, yeah now) Alright It's black, it's white It's tough for you to be black (yeah, yeah, yeah) It's black, it's white (woo!) It's black, it's white It's tough for you to be black (yeah, yeah, yeah) It's black, it's white (woo!) Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life for me. Birds flyin' high, you know how I feel Sun in the sky, you know how I feel Breeze driftin' on by, you know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me, yeah It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo And I'm feeling good Fish in the sea, you know how I feel River running free, you know how I feel Blossom on the tree, you know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life, for me And I'm feeling good Dragonfly out in the sun You know what I mean, don't you know? Butterflies all havin' fun You know what I mean Sleep in peace when day is done That's what I mean And this old world is a new world And a bold world, for me, yeah, yeah Stars when you shine, you know how I feel Scent of the pine, you know how I feel Oh, freedom is mine And I know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me Oh, I'm feeling good Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Only the tribe of Levi you shall not enroll, and you shall not take a census of them with the other Israelites. The Books of the Bible The First Census of Israel Numbers 1:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 Take a census of the whole congregation of Israelites, in their clans, by ancestral houses, according to the number of names, every male individually; 3 from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel able to go to war. You and Aaron shall enroll them, company by company. 4 A man from each tribe shall be with you, each man the head of his ancestral house. 5 These are the names of the men who shall assist you: From Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur. 6 From Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 7 From Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab. 8 From Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar. 9 From Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. 10 From the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. 11 From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni. 12 From Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. 13 From Asher, Pagiel son of Ochran. 14 From Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel. 15 From Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan. 16 These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the divisions of Israel. 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18 and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation together. They registered themselves in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, individually, 19 as the LORD commanded Moses. So he enrolled them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 The descendants of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, individually, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 21 those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. 22 The descendants of Simeon, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, individually, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 23 those enrolled of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 24 The descendants of Gad, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 25 those enrolled of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. 26 The descendants of Judah, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 27 those enrolled of the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred. 28 The descendants of Issachar, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 29 those enrolled of the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. 30 The descendants of Zebulun, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 31 those enrolled of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 32 The descendants of Joseph, namely, the descendants of Ephraim, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 33 those enrolled of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. 34 The descendants of Manasseh, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 35 those enrolled of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred. 36 The descendants of Benjamin, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 37 those enrolled of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred. 38 The descendants of Dan, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 39 those enrolled of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. 40 The descendants of Asher, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 41 those enrolled of the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred. 42 The descendants of Naphtali, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war: 43 those enrolled of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred. 44 These are those who were enrolled, whom Moses and Aaron enrolled with the help of the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each representing his ancestral house. 45 So the whole number of the Israelites, by their ancestral houses, from twenty years old and upward, everyone able to go to war in Israel— 46 their whole number was six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. 47 The Levites, however, were not numbered by their ancestral tribe along with them. 48 The LORD had said to Moses: 49 Only the tribe of Levi you shall not enroll, and you shall not take a census of them with the other Israelites. 50 Rather you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the covenant, and over all its equipment, and over all that belongs to it; they are to carry the tabernacle and all its equipment, and they shall tend it, and shall camp around the tabernacle. 51 When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And any outsider who comes near shall be put to death. 52 The other Israelites shall camp in their respective regimental camps, by companies; 53 but the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the covenant, a that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the Israelites; and the Levites shall perform the guard duty of the tabernacle of the covenant. 54 The Israelites did so; they did just as the LORD commanded Moses. New Revised Standard Version Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Subscrib e for access to our exclusive library of articles and videos and other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube ! Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

What a day what a day. Oh my my my I'm feeling high My moneys gone I'm all alone The world is turnin' Oh what a day What a day what a day Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learn, If your knowledge were your wealth then it will be well earn If we were made in his image then call us by our names Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same Oh on and on and on and on Whew on and on and on and on I go on and on and on and on Ohh on and on and on and on I was born under water with 3 dollars and 6 dimes Yeah you might laugh 'cause you did not do your math Na qua 2..3. Damn, yall feel that? Oh... Qua 2..3. The world keeps turning Oh what a day what a day what a day The man that knows something knows that he knows nothing at all Does it seem colder in your summertime and hotter in your fall If we were made in his image then call us by our names Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same Oh on and on and on and on On and on and on and on I go on and on and on and on On and on and on and on I am feeling kinda hungry 'cause my high is coming down Don't feed me yours 'cause your food does not endure I think i need a cup of tea, the world keeps burnin' Oh what a day, what a day what a day You rush into destruction 'cause you don't have nothin' left The mothership can't save you so your ass is goin' get it If we were made in his image then call us by our names Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same Oh on and on and on and on On and on and on and on Ooh ooh wee on and on and on and on On and on and on and on Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

What a blessed day. Was invited to sing as part of a praise team for Church Outside the Church at a Children's Home. We were supposed to minister to the children, but they ended up ministering to me! What a blessed day. Christina V. Mills is the creator of Liveology® Yoga Studios & Magazine and our products. She is a lifelong spiritual seeker, writer, and yoga teacher. Follow her on Instagram @morelifemoreyoga. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land that I have given them. The Books of the Bible The Book of Amos The Destruction of Israel Amos 9:1 I saw the LORD standing beside the altar, and he said: Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away, not one of them shall escape. 2 Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. 3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the sea-serpent, and it shall bite them. 4 And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good. 5 The Lord, GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt; 6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens, and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name. 7 Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel? says the LORD. Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir? 8 The eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth —except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD. 9 For lo, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the ground. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, “Evil shall not overtake or meet us.” The Restoration of David’s Kingdom 11 On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old; 12 in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name, says the LORD who does this. 13 The time is surely coming, says the LORD, when the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps, and the treader of grapes the one who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it. 14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. 15 I will plant them upon their land, and they shall never again be plucked up out of the land that I have given them, says the LORD your God. New Revised Standard Version Liveology® Yoga Studios & Magazine creates uplifting content for evolving humans as we draw from wisdom across the world. Shop yogi swag and go down the rabbit hole for exclusive content. Please join our email list and tell a friend about us today. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Love a black man from infinity to infinity. Uh, U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity U.N.I.T.Y., love a black man from infinity to infinity (Who you calling a bitch?) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) Instinct leads me to another flow Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a ho Trying to make a sister feel low You know all of that gots to go Now everybody knows there's exceptions to this rule Now don't be getting mad, when we playing, it's cool But don't you be calling out my name I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame That's why I'm talking, one day I was walking down the block I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot I walked past these dudes when they passed me One of 'em felt my booty, he was nasty I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly Huh, I punched him dead in his eye and said "Who you calling a bitch?" (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) I hit the bottom, there ain't nowhere else to go but up Bad days at work, give you an attitude then you were rough And take it out on me but that's about enough You put your hands on me again I'll put your ass in handcuffs I guess I fell so deep in love I grew dependency I was too blind to see just how it was affecting me All I knew was you, you was all the man I had And I was scared to let you go, even though you treated me bad But I don't want my kids to see me getting beat down By daddy smacking mommy all around You say I'm nothing without ya, but I'm nothing with ya A man don't really love you if he hits ya This is my notice to the door, I'm not taking it no more I'm not your personal whore, that's not what I'm here for And nothing good gonna come to ya til you do right by me Brother you wait and see (Who you calling a bitch?) (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) What's going on in your mind is what I ask ya But like Yo-Yo, you don't hear me though You wear a rag around your head and you call yourself a "Gangsta Bitch" now that you saw Apache's video I saw you wilding, acting like a fool I peeped you out the window jumping girls after school But where did all of this come from? A minute ago, you was a nerd and nobody ever heard of ya Now you a wannabe... hard You barely know your ABC's, please There's plenty of people out there with triggers ready to pull it Why you trying to jump in front of the bullet (Young lady) Uh, and real bad girls are the silent type Ain't none of this work getting your face sliced Cause that's what happened to your homegirl, right? Bucking with nobody She got to wear that for life (Who you calling a bitch?) (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black woman from (You got to let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) (Here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., U.N.I.T.Y. that's a unity (You gotta let him know) (You go, come on here we go) U.N.I.T.Y., Love a black man from (You must let him know) infinity to infinity (You ain't a bitch or a ho) Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire. My love is blind, can't you see my desire? Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire My love is blind, can't you see my desire? That's the way love goes (That's the way love, that's the way love) (That's the way love goes) Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire (that's the way) My love is blind, can't you see my desire? (That's the way) Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire (that's the way) My love is blind, can't you see my desire? (That's the way love goes) Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire (That's the way, that's the way) (That's the way love goes) That's the way love goes My love is blind, can't you see my desire? (That's the way, that's the way) (That's the way love goes) Come with me, don't you worry I'm gonna make you crazy I'll give you the time of your life I'm gonna take you places You've never been before and You'll be so happy that you came Ooh, I'm gonna take you there, ooh That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (that's the way love goes) That's the way love goes (that's the way) That's the way love goes (desire) (That's the way, that's the way life goes) Don't mind if I light candles I like to watch us play and Baby, I've got on what you like Come closer, baby, closer Reach out and feel my body I'm gonna give you all my love Ooh, sugar don't you hurry You've got me here all night Just close your eyes and hold on tight Ooh, baby, don't stop, don't stop Go deeper, baby, deeper You feel so good I'm gonna cry Oh, I'm gonna take you there, ooh That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (that's the way love goes) That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (that's the way love goes) That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (Don't you know? That's the way) Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire My love is blind, can't you see my desire? Like a moth to a flame, burned by the fire My love is blind, can't you see my desire? (That's the way, that's the way) (That's the way, that's the way) that's the way the love goes (That's the way, that's the way) That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (that's the way, that's the way) That's the way love goes, it goes, it goes (that's the way, that's the way) That's the way love goes That's the way love goes That's the way love goes That's the way love goes (that's the way love goes) That's the way love, that's the way love, that's the way love That's the way love, that's the way love, that's the way love That's the way love goes Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. The Books of the Bible Job Finishes His Defense Job 29:1 Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; 3 when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; 4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; 5 when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; 6 when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! 7 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, 8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood; 9 the nobles refrained from talking, and laid their hands on their mouths; 10 the voices of princes were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths. 11 When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved; 12 because I delivered the poor who cried, and the orphan who had no helper. 13 The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger. 17 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous, and made them drop their prey from their teeth. 18 Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the phoenix;a 19 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches; 20 my glory was fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’ 21 “They listened to me, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel. 22 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them like dew. 23 They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain. 24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence; and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish. 25 I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. New Revised Standard Version Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Become a Member! Members receive access to our exclusive library of articles and videos ad other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Sharing is caring. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!

Baby, let's fly. From the moment I saw you I went outta my mind Though I never believed in love at first sight But you got a magic, boy That I just can't explain Well, you got a, you got a way That you're making me feel I can do, I can do anything for you, baby I'll be down for you, baby Lay all my cards out tonight Just call on me, baby I'll be there in a hurry It's your move, so baby Baby, decide Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight From the second you touched me I was ready to die I've never been fatal You're my first time I feel like an angel Who just started to fly Well, you got a, you got a way that you're making me Feel I can, feel I can, do anything for you, baby I will fly for you, baby Hold on and enjoy the ride I'm not in no hurry We can fly all night, baby It's your move, now, baby Baby, let's fly Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Whatever I do, boy It's all about you, baby And ain't it the truth, boy I'm helplessly in love with you What else can I do, boy But be there for you, baby You got a, you got a way that you're making me Feel I can, feel I can do any, do anything Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Looks like I'm fatal It's all on the table And baby, you hold the cards You got the magic And I've got to have it I don't want the pieces I want every single part I'll be your angel I'm ready and able Whatever you want is fine Whenever you're ready Just call on your lady And I'll be your baby tonight, yeah I'm your baby tonight I'm your baby tonight Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Whatever you want from me I'm giving you everything I'm your baby tonight You've given me ecstasy You are my fantasy I'm your baby tonight Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Celebrate good times! Yahoo! (This is your celebration) Yahoo! (This is your celebration) Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate) There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times and your laughter too We gonna celebrate your party with you Come on now (Celebration) let's all celebrate and have a good time (Celebration) we gon' celebrate and have a good time It's time to come together It's up to you, what's your pleasure? (Everyone around the world come on) Yahoo! It's a celebration Yahoo! Celebrate good times, come on (it's a celebration) Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate) We're gonna have a good time tonight Let's celebrate, it's alright We're gonna have a good time tonight Let's celebrate, it's alright, baby We're gonna have a good time tonight (celebration) Let's celebrate, it's alright We're gonna have a good time tonight (celebration) Let's celebrate, it's alright Yahoo! Yahoo! Celebrate good times, come on (let's celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on (it's a celebration) Celebrate good times, come on (come on, let's celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on (tonight) (Baby, everything's gonna be alright, let's celebrate) Celebrate good times, come on Celebrate good times, come on (let's have a great time, celebrate) Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

We want full manhood suffrage, and we want it now, henceforth and forever. Harpers Ferry, WV. August 19, 1905 . The men of the Niagara Movement coming from the toil of the year’s hard work and pausing a moment from the earning of their daily bread turn toward the nation and again ask in the name of ten million the privilege of a hearing. In the past year the work of the Negro hater has flourished in the land. Step by step the defenders of the rights of American citizens have retreated. The work of stealing the black man’s ballot has progressed and the fifty and more representatives of stolen votes still sit in the nation’s capital. Discrimination in travel and public accommodation has so spread that some of our weaker brethren are actually afraid to thunder against color discrimination as such and are simply whispering for ordinary decencies. Against this the Niagara Movement eternally protests. We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights. We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American, political, civil and social; and until we get these rights we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone but for all true Americans. It is a fight for ideals, lest this, our common fatherland, false to its founding, become in truth the land of the thief and the home of the Slave–a by-word and a hissing among the nations for its sounding pretensions and pitiful accomplishment. Never before in the modern age has a great and civilized folk threatened to adopt so cowardly a creed in the treatment of its fellow-citizens born and bred on its soil. Stripped of verbiage and subterfuge and in its naked nastiness the new American creed says: Fear to let black men even try to rise lest they become the equals of the white. And this is the land that professes to follow Jesus Christ. The blasphemy of such a course is only matched by its cowardice. In detail our demands are clear and unequivocal. First, we would vote; with the right to vote goes everything: Freedom, manhood, the honor of your wives, the chastity of your daughters, the right to work, and the chance to rise, and let no man listen to those who deny this. We want full manhood suffrage, and we want it now, henceforth and forever. Second. We want discrimination in public accommodation to cease. Separation in railway and street cars, based simply on race and color, is un-American, un-democratic, and silly. We protest against all such discrimination. Third. We claim the right of freemen to walk, talk, and be with them that wish to be with us. No man has a right to choose another man’s friends, and to attempt to do so is an impudent interference with the most fundamental human privilege. Fourth. We want the laws enforced against rich as well as poor; against capitalist as well as laborer; against white as well as black. We are not more lawless than the white race, we are more often arrested, convicted, and mobbed. We want justice even for criminals and outlaws. We want the Constitution of the country enforced. We want Congress to take charge of Congressional elections. We want the Fourteenth amendment carried out to the letter and every State disfranchised in Congress which attempts to disfranchise its rightful voters. We want the Fifteenth amendment enforced and No State allowed to base its franchise simply on color. The failure of the Republican Party in Congress at the session just closed to redeem its pledge of 1904 with reference to suffrage conditions at the South seems a plain, deliberate, and premeditated breach of promise, and stamps that party as guilty of obtaining votes under false pretense. Fifth, We want our children educated. The school system in the country districts of the South is a disgrace and in few towns and cities are Negro schools what they ought to be. We want the national government to step in and wipe out illiteracy in the South. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. And when we call for education we mean real education. We believe in work. We ourselves are workers, but work is not necessarily education. Education is the development of power and ideal. We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be, and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire. These are some of the chief things which we want. How shall we get them? By voting where we may vote, by persistent, unceasing agitation; by hammering at the truth, by sacrifice and work. We do not believe in violence, neither in the despised violence of the raid nor the lauded violence of the soldier, nor the barbarous violence of the mob, but we do believe in John Brown, in that incarnate spirit of justice, that hatred of a lie, that willingness to sacrifice money, reputation, and life itself on the altar of right. And here on the scene of John Brown’s martyrdom we reconsecrate ourselves, our honor, our property to the final emancipation of the race which John Brown died to make free. Our enemies, triumphant for the present, are fighting the stars in their courses. Justice and humanity must prevail. We live to tell these dark brothers of ours–scattered in counsel, wavering and weak–that no bribe of money or notoriety, no promise of wealth or fame, is worth the surrender of a people’s manhood or the loss of a man’s self-respect. We refuse to surrender the leadership of this race to cowards and trucklers. We are men; we will be treated as men. On this rock we have planted our banners. We will never give up, though the trump of doom finds us still fighting. And we shall win. The past promised it, the present foretells it. Thank God for John Brown! Thank God for Garrison and Douglass! Sumner and Phillips, Nat Turner and Robert Gould Shaw, and all the hallowed dead who died for freedom! Thank God for all those to-day, few though their voices be, who have not forgotten the divine brotherhood of all men white and black, rich and poor, fortunate and unfortunate. We appeal to the young men and women of this nation, to those whose nostrils are not yet befouled by greed and snobbery and racial narrowness: Stand up for the right, prove yourselves worthy of your heritage and whether born north or south dare to treat men as men. Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve? Courage brothers! The battle for humanity is not lost or losing. All across the skies sit signs of promise. The slave is raising in his might, the yellow millions are tasting liberty, the Black Africans are writhing toward the light, and everywhere the laborer, with ballot in his hand, is voting open the gates of opportunity and peace. The morning breaks over blood-stained hills. We must not falter, we may not shrink. Above are the everlasting stars. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! 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You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom. Mr. Moderator, Reverend Clegg, brothers and sisters, and friends, and I see some enemies. In fact, I think we’d be fooling ourselves if we had an audience this large and didn’t realize that there were some enemies present. This afternoon we want to talk about the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet explains itself. But before we get into it, since this is the year of the ballot or the bullet, I would like to clarify some things that refer to me personally concerning my own personal position. I’m still a Muslim, that is, my religion is still Islam. My religion is still Islam. I still credit Mr. Muhammad for what I know and what I am. He’s the one who opened my eyes. At present I’m the minister of the newly founded Muslim Mosque, Incorporated, which has its offices in the Teresa Hotel right in the heart of Harlem. That’s the Black Belt in New York City. And when we realized that Adam Clayton Powell is a Christian minister, he has Abyssinia Baptist Church, but at the same time he’s more famous for his political struggling, and Dr. King is a Christian minister from Atlanta, Georgia, or in Atlanta, Georgia. But he’s become more famous for being involved in the civil rights struggle. There’s another in New York, Reverend Galamison, I don’t know if you’ve heard of him out here. He’s a Christian minister from Brooklyn, but has become famous for his fight against the segregated school system in Brooklyn. Reverend Cleage, right here, is a Christian minister here in Detroit, he’s the head of the Freedom Now Party. All of these are Christian ministers, but they don’t come to us as Christian ministers, they come to us as fighters in some other category. I’m a Muslim minister. The same as they are Christian ministers, I’m a Muslim minister, and I don’t believe in fighting today in any one front, but on all fronts. In fact, I’m a black nationalist freedom fighter. Islam is my religion, but I believe my religion is my personal business. It governs my personal life, my personal morals. And my religious philosophy is personal between me and the God in whom I believe, just as the religious philosophy of these others is between them and the God in whom they believe. And this is best this way. Were we to come out here discussing religion, we’d have too many differences from the outstart, and we could never get together. So today, though Islam is my religious philosophy, my political, economic, and social philosophy is black nationalism. As I say, if we bring up religion, we’ll have differences, we’ll have arguments, and we’ll never be able to get together. But if we keep our religion at home, keep our religion in the closet, keep our religion between ourselves and our God, that when we come out here, we have a fight that’s common to all of us against the enemy who is common to all of us. The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community. By the same token, the time when white people can come in our community and get us to vote for them so that they can be our political leaders and tell us what to do and what not to do is long gone. By the same token, the time when that same white man, knowing that your eyes are too far open, can send another Negro into the community, get you and me to support him so he can use him to lead us astray, those days are long gone. The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that if you and I are going to live in a black community. And that’s where we’re going to live, because as soon as you move out of the black community into their community, it’s missed for a period of time, but they’re gone and you’re right there all by yourself. We must understand the politics of our community, and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives, and until we become politically mature, we will always be misled, led astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart. So the political philosophy of black nationalism only means that we will have to carry on a program, a political program of re-education, to open our people’s eyes, make us become more politically conscious, politically mature, and then we will, whenever we get ready to cast our ballot, that ballot will be cast for a man of the community who has the good of the community at heart. The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that we should own and operate and control the economy of our community. You would never find—you can’t open up a black store in a white community. A white man won’t even patronize you, and he’s not wrong. He’s got sense enough to look out for himself, and you don’t have sense enough to look out for yourself. The white man is too intelligent to let someone else come and gain control of the economy of his community. But you will let anybody come in and control the economy of your community, control the housing, control the education, control the jobs, control the businesses, under the pretext that you want to integrate. No, you’re out of your mind. The political, the economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that we have to become involved in a program of re-education, to educate our people into the importance of knowing that when you spend your dollar out of the community in which you live, the community in which you spend your money becomes richer and richer, the community out of which you take your money becomes poorer and poorer. And because these Negroes who have been misled and misguided are breaking their necks to take their money and spend it with the man, the man is becoming richer and richer, and you’re becoming poorer and poorer. And then what happens? The community in which you live becomes a slum. It becomes a ghetto. The conditions become run-down. And then you have the audacity to complain about poor housing in a run-down community while you’re running down yourself when you take your dollar out. And you and I are in a double trap, because not only do we lose by taking our money someplace else and spending it, when we try and spend it in our own community, we’re trapped because we haven’t had sense enough to set up stores and control the businesses of our community. The man who’s controlling the stores in our community is a man who doesn’t look like we do. He’s a man who doesn’t even live in the community. So you and I, even when we try and spend our money in the block where we live or the area where we live, we’re spending it with a man who, when the sun goes down, takes that basket full of money in another part of the town. So we’re trapped, trapped, double-trapped, triple-trapped. Anywhere we go, we find that we’re trapped. And every kind of solution that someone comes up with is just another trap. But the political and economic philosophy of black nationalism, the economic philosophy of black nationalism shows our people the importance of setting up these little stores and developing them and expanding them into larger operations. Woolworths didn’t start out big like they are today. They started out with a dime store and expanded and expanded and expanded until today they’re all over the country and all over the world and they’re getting some of everybody’s money. Now this, what you and I in General Motors, the same way, didn’t start out like it is. It started out just a little rat race type operation. And it expanded and expanded until today it’s where it is right now. And you and I have to make a start. And the best place to start is right in the community where we live. So our people not only have to be re-educated to the importance of supporting black business, but the black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business. And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community, what we will be doing is developing a situation wherein we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community. And once you can create some employment in the community where you live, it will eliminate the necessity of you and me having to act ignorantly and disgracefully boycotting and picketing some cracker, some blazel, trying to bang him for a job. Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job, you’re in bad shape. When you have him as your enemy, anytime, you wouldn’t be in this country if some enemy hadn’t kidnapped you and brought you here. On the other hand, some of you think you came here on the Mayflower. So as you can see, brothers and sisters, today, this afternoon, it’s not our intention to discuss religion. We’re going to forget religion. If we bring up religion, we’ll be in an argument. And the best way to keep away from arguments and differences, as I said earlier, put your religion at home, in the closet. Keep it between you and your God. Because if it hasn’t done anything more for you than it has, you need to forget it anyway. Whether you are a Christian or a Muslim or a nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don’t hang you because you’re a Baptist, they hang you because you’re black. They don’t attack me because I’m a Muslim, they attack me because I’m black. They attack all of us for the same reason. All of us catch hell from the same enemy. We’re all in the same bag, in the same boat. We suffer political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation. All of them from the same enemy. The government has failed us. You can’t deny that. Anytime you live in the 20th century, 1964, and you’re walking around here singing, we shall overcome, the government has failed us. This is part of what’s wrong with you. You do too much singing. Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom. Cassius Clay can sing, but singing didn’t help him to become the heavyweight champion of the world. Swinging helped him. But this government has failed us. The government itself has failed us. And the white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. And once we see that all these other sources to which we’ve turned have failed, we stop turning to them and turn to ourselves. We need a self-help program. A do-it-yourself philosophy. A do-it-right-now philosophy. A it’s-already-too-late philosophy. This is what you and I need to get with. The only way we’re going to solve our problem is with a self-help program. Before we can get a self-help program started, we have to have a self-help philosophy. Black nationalism is a self-help philosophy. What’s so good about it, you can stay right in the church where you are and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. You can stay in any kind of civic organization that you belong to and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. You can be an atheist and still take black nationalism as your philosophy. This is a philosophy that eliminates the necessity for division and argument. Because if you’re black, you should be thinking black. And if you’re black and you’re not thinking black at this late date, well, I’m sorry for you. Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern. And then you go on into some action. As long as you’ve got a sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern. And as long as you think that old sit-down thought, you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action. They’ll have you sitting in everywhere. It’s not so good to refer to what you’re going to do as a sit-in. That right there has to reach you. Right there it brings you down. What goes with it? Think of the image of someone sitting. An old woman can sit. An old man can sit. A chump can sit. A coward can sit. Anything can sit. Well, you and I have been sitting long enough, and it’s time today for us to start doing some standing and some fighting in the background. When we look at other parts of this earth upon which we live, we find that blank brown, red, and yellow people in Africa and Asia are getting their independence. They’re not getting it by singing, We Shall Overcome. No, they’re getting it through nationalism. It is nationalism that brought about the independence of the people in Asia. Every nation in Asia gained its independence through the philosophy of nationalism. Every nation on the African continent that has gotten its independence brought it about through the philosophy of nationalism. And it will take black nationalism to bring about the freedom of 22 million Afro-Americans here in this country where we have suffered colonialism for the past 400 years. America is just as much a colonial power as England ever was. America is just as much a colonial power as France ever was. In fact, America is more so a colonial power than they, because she’s a hypocritical colonial power behind it. What do you call second-class citizenship? Well, that’s colonization. Second-class citizenship is nothing but 20th century slavery. How are you going to tell me you’re a second-class citizen? They don’t have second-class citizenship in any other government on this earth. They just have slaves and people who are free. Well, this country is a hypocrite. They try and make you think they set you free by calling you a second-class citizen. No, you’re nothing but a 20th century slave. Just as it took nationalism to remove colonialism from Asia and Africa, it will take black nationalism today to remove colonialism from the backs and the minds of the 22 million Afro-Americans here in this country. And 1964 looks like it might be the year of the ballot or the bullet. Why does it look like it might be the year of the ballot or the bullet? Because Negroes have listened to the trickery and the lies and the false promises of the white man now for too long, and they’re fed up. They’ve become disenchanted. They’ve become disillusioned. They’ve become dissatisfied. And all of this has built up frustrations in the black community that makes the black community throughout America today more explosive than all of the atomic bombs the Russians can ever invent. Whenever you’ve got a racial powder keg sitting in your lap, you’re in more trouble than if you had an atomic powder keg sitting in your lap. When a racial powder keg goes off, it doesn’t care who, it knocks out the way. Understand this, it’s dangerous. And in 1964, this seems to be the year. Because what can the white man use now to fool us? After he put down that march on Washington, and you see all through that now, he tricked you, had you marching down to Washington. Yeah, had you marching back and forth between the feet of a dead man named Lincoln and another dead man named George Washington, singing, We Shall Overcome. He made a chump out of you. He made a fool out of you. He made you think you were going somewhere, and you end up going nowhere but between Lincoln and Washington. So today, our people are disillusioned. They’ve become disenchanted. They’ve become dissatisfied. And in their frustrations, they want action. You’ll see this young black man, this new generation, asking for the ballot or the bullet. That old Uncle Tom action is outdated. The young generation don’t want to hear anything about the odds are against us. What do we care about odds? When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said liberty or death. Though I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan, the white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington wasn’t nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English. They didn’t care about the odds, but they faced the wrath of the entire British Empire. And in those days they used to say that the British Empire was so vast and so powerful when the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was. Yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire liberty or death. And here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I’m here to tell you, in case you don’t know, that you’ve got a new generation of black people in this country who don’t care anything but forever about odds. They don’t want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief head talking about the odds. No. This is a new generation. If they’re going to draft these young black men and send them over to Korea or South Vietnam to face 800 million Chinese. If you’re not afraid of those odds, you shouldn’t be afraid of these odds. Why is America, why does this loom to be such an explosive political year? Because this is the year of politics. This is the year when all of the white politicians are going to come into the Negro community. You never see them until election time. You can’t blame them until election time. They’re going to come in with false promises. And as they make these false promises, they’re going to feed our frustrations. And this will only serve to make matters worse. I’m no politician. I’m not even a student of politics. I’m not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I’m one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats. One of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism. And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat or a Republican. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy. All we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any American dream. We’ve experienced only the American nightmare. We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy. We’ve only suffered from America’s hypocrisy. And the generation that’s coming up now can see it, and are not afraid to say it. If you go to jail, for what? If you’re black, you were born in jail. If you’re black, you were born in jail. In the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. As long as you’re South of the Canadian border, you’re South. Don’t call Governor Wallace a Dixie governor. Romney is a Dixie governor. Twenty-two million black victims of Americanism are waking up, and they’re gaining a new political consciousness, becoming politically mature. And as they develop this political maturity, they’re able to see the recent trends in these political elections. They see that the whites are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close, they have to go back and count the votes all over again. Which means that any block, any minority that has a block of votes that stick together is in a strategic position. Either way you go, that’s who gets it. You’re in a position to determine who’ll go to the White House and who’ll stay in the Dog House. You’re the one who has that power. You can keep Johnson in Washington, D.C., or you can send him back to his Texas cotton patch. You’re the one who sent Kennedy to Washington. You’re the one who put the present Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. The whites were evenly divided. It was the fact that you threw 80% of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House. When you see this, you can see that the Negro vote is the key factor. And despite the fact that you are in a position to be the determining factor, what do you get out of it? The Democrats have been in Washington, D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They’ve been down there four years. And they’re all other legislation they wanted to bring up, they’ve brought it up and gotten it out of the way, and now they bring up you. And now they bring up you. You put them first and they put you last. Because you’re a chump. A political chump. In Washington, D.C., in the House of Representatives, there are 257 who are Democrats. Only 177 are Republicans. In the Senate, there are 67 Democrats. Only 33 are Republicans. The party that you back controls two-thirds of the House of Representatives in the Senate, and still they can’t keep their promise to you. Because you’re a chump. Anytime you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two-thirds of the government, and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election time, and you’re dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you’re not only a chump, but you’re a traitor to your race. And what kind of alibi do they come up with? They try and pass the buck to the Dixiecrats. Now back during the days when you were blind, deaf, and dumb, ignorant, politically immature, naturally you went along with that. But today, as your eyes come open, and you develop political maturity, you’re able to see and think for yourself, and you can see that a Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise. You look at the structure of the government that controls this country. It’s controlled by 16 senatorial committees and 20 congressional committees. Of the 16 senatorial committees that run the government, 10 of them are in the hands of Southern segregationists. Of the 20 congressional committees that run the government, 12 of them are in the hands of Southern segregationists. And they’re going to tell you and me that the South lost the war. You today are in the hands of a government of segregationists, racists, white supremacists, who belong to the Democratic Party, but disguise themselves as Dixiecrats. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat. Whoever runs the Democrats is also the father of the Dixiecrats, and the father of all of them is sitting in the White House. I say, and I say it again, you’ve got a president who’s nothing but a Southern segregationist. From the state of Texas, they’ll lynch you in Texas as quick as they’ll lynch you in Mississippi. Only in Texas, they lynch you with a Texas accent. In Mississippi, they lynch you with a Mississippi accent. And the first thing the cracker does when he comes in power, he takes all the Negro leaders and invites them for a coffee to show that he’s all right. And those Uncle Toms can’t pass up the coffee. They come away from the coffee table telling you and me that this man is all right. Because he’s from the South. And since he’s from the South, he can deal with the South. And look at the logic that they’re using. What about Eastland? He’s from the South. Make him the president. If Johnson is a good man because he’s from Texas, and being from Texas will enable him to deal with the South, Eastland can deal with the South better than Johnson. No, no, no, I say, you’ve been misled. You’ve been had. You’ve been took. I was in Washington a couple weeks ago while the Senators were filibustering. And I noticed in the back of the Senate a huge map. And on this map, it showed the distribution of Negroes in America. And surprisingly, the same Senators that were involved in the filibuster were from the states where there were the most Negroes. Why were they filibustering the civil rights legislation? Because the civil rights legislation is supposed to guarantee voting rights to Negroes in those states. And those Senators from those states know that if the Negroes in those states can vote, those Senators are down the drain. The representatives of those states go down the drain. And in the Constitution of this country, it has a stipulation wherein whenever the rights, the voting rights of people in a certain district are violated, then the representative who’s from that particular district, according to the Constitution, is supposed to be expelled from the Congress. Now, if this particular aspect of the Constitution was enforced, why, you wouldn’t have a cracker in Washington, D.C. But what would happen? When you expel the Dixiecrats, you’re expelling the Democrats. When you destroy the power of the Dixiecrats, you’re destroying the power of the Democratic Party. So how in the world can the Democratic Party in the South actually side with you, in sincerity, when all of its power is based in the South? These Northern Democrats are in cahoots with the Southern Democrats. They’re playing a giant con game, a political con game. You know how it goes. One of them comes to you and make believe it’s for you. And he’s in cahoots with the other one that’s not for you. Why? Because neither one of them is for you. But they’ve got to make you agree with one of them or the other. So this is a con game. And this is what they’ve been doing with you and me all these years. First thing Johnson got off the plane when he become President, he asked, where’s Dickey? You know who Dickey is? Dickey is old. Southern cracker Richard Russell. Look here. Yes. Lyndon D. Johnson’s best friend is the one who is ahead, who’s heading the forces that are filibustering civil rights legislation. You tell me, how in the hell is he going to be Johnson’s best friend? How can Johnson be his friend and your friend too? No, that man is too tricky. Especially if his friend is still old Dickey. Whenever the Negroes keep the Democrats in power, they’re keeping the Dixiecrats in power. This is true. A vote for a Democrat is nothing but a vote for a Dixiecrat. I know you don’t like me saying that, but I do. I’m not the kind of person who come here to say what you like. I’m going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not. Up here in the North, you have the same thing. The Democratic Party don’t do it. They don’t do it that way. They got a thing that they call gerrymandering. They maneuver you out of power. Even though you can vote, they fix it so you’re voting for nobody. They got you going and coming. In the South, they’re outright political wolves. In the North, they’re political foxes. A fox and a wolf are both canines. Both belong to the dog family. Now, you take your choice. You’re going to choose a Northern dog or a Southern dog. Because either dog you choose, I guarantee you, you’ll still be in the dog house. This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody. Oh yes, they are. They have never had a bloodless revolution or a non-violent revolution. This don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. A revolution is bloody. But America is in a unique position. She’s the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody. The Chinese revolution was bloody. The French revolution was bloody. The Cuban revolution was bloody. And there was nothing more bloody than the American revolution. But today, this country can become involved in a revolution that won’t take bloodshed. All she’s got to do is give the black man in this country everything that’s due him. Everything. I hope that the white man can see this. Because if you don’t see it, you’re finished. If you don’t see it, you’re going to become involved in some action in which you don’t have a chance. We don’t care anything about your atomic bomb. It’s useless. Because other countries have atomic bombs. When two or three different countries have atomic bombs, nobody can use them. So it means that the white man today is without a weapon. If you want some action, you’ve got to come on down to Earth. And there’s more black people on Earth than there are white people on Earth. I only got a couple more minutes. The white man can never win another war on the ground. His days of war, victory. His days of battleground victory are over. Can I prove it? Yes. Take all the action that’s going on on this Earth right now that he’s involved in. Tell me where he’s winning. Nowhere. Why, some rice farmers, some rice farmers, some rice eaters ran him out of Korea. Yes, they ran him out of Korea. Rice eaters with nothing but gym shoes and a rifle and a bowl of rice. Took him and his tanks and his napalm and all that other action he’s supposed to have and ran him across the Yalu. Why? Because the danger he can win on the ground is past. Up in French Indochina, those little peasants, rice growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen. You remember Dien Bien Phu? No. The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. They didn’t have anything but a rifle. The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on them. And a white man can’t fight a guerrilla warfare. Guerrilla action takes heart, takes nerve, and he doesn’t have that. He’s brave when he’s got tanks. He’s brave when he’s got planes. He’s brave when he’s got bombs. He’s brave when he’s got a whole lot of company along with him. But you take that little man from Africa and Asia, turn him loose in the woods with a blade. That’s all he needs. All he needs is a blade. And when the sun comes down, goes down, and it’s dark, it’s even-steven. So it’s the ballot or the bullet. Today our people can see that we’re faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators who are filibustering concerning your and my rights, that’s the government. Don’t say it’s Southern senators. This is the government. This is a government filibuster. It’s not a segregationist filibuster. It’s a government filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that’s the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government. Any kind of poofy-footing, that’s the government. Any kind of act that’s designed to delay or deprive you and me right now of getting full rights, that’s the government. That’s responsible. And any time you find a government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the world court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today. So those of us whose political and economic and social philosophy is black nationalism have become involved in the civil rights struggle. We have injected ourselves into the civil rights struggle and we intend to expand it from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. As long as you fight it on the level of civil rights, you’re under Uncle Sam’s jurisdiction. You’re going to his court expecting him to correct the problem. He created the problem. He’s the criminal. You don’t take your case to the criminal, you take your criminal to court. When the government of South Africa began to trample upon the human rights of the people of South Africa, they were taken to the UN. When the government of Portugal began to trample upon the rights of our brothers and sisters in Angola, it was taken before the UN. Why, even the white man took the Hungarian question to the UN and just this week Chief Justice Goldberg was crying over 3 million Jews in Russia about their human rights, charging Russia with violating the UN Charter because of its mistreatment of the human rights of Jews in Russia. Now you tell me how can the plight of everybody on this earth reach the halls of the United Nations when you have 22 million Afro-Americans whose churches are being bombed, whose little girls are being murdered, whose leaders are being shot down in broad daylight. Now you tell me why the leaders of this struggle have never taken it before the United Nations. So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle, problem, into the United Nations. And let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro-Americans and feel he has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world. Not only is he a crook, he’s a hypocrite. Here he is standing up in front of other people, Uncle Sam, with the blood of young men, mothers and fathers, on his hands, with the blood dripping down his jaws like a bloody-jawed wolf, and still got the nerve to point his finger at other countries. You can’t even get civil rights legislation. And this man has got the nerve to stand up and talk about South Africa, or talk about Nazi Germany, or talk about Portugal. No, no more days like those. And I say in my conclusion, the only way we’re going to solve it, we’ve got to unite in unity and harmony. And black nationalism is the key. How are we going to overcome the tendency to be at each other’s throats that always exist in our neighborhood? And the reason this tendency exists, the strategy of the white man has always been divide and conquer. He keeps us divided in order to conquer us. He tells you I’m for separation and you’re for integration and keep us fighting with each other. No, I’m not for separation and you’re not for integration. What you and I are for is freedom. Only you think that integration will get you freedom, I think separation will get me freedom. We both got the same objective, we just got different ways of getting at it. So I studied this man, Billy Graham, who preaches white nationalism. That’s what he preaches. I say that’s what he preaches. The whole church structure in this country is white nationalism. You go inside a white church, that’s what they’re preaching, white nationalism. They got Jesus white, Mary white, God white, everybody white, that’s white nationalism. So what he does, the way he circumvents the jealousy and envy that he ordinarily would incur among the heads of the church. Whenever you go into an area where the church already is, you’re going to run into trouble. They got that thing, what you call it, syndicated. They got a syndicate just like the racketeers have. I’m going to say what’s on my mind because the preachers already proved to you that they got a syndicate. And when you’re out in the rackets, whenever you get into another man’s territory, you know, they gang up on you. And that’s the same way with you, you run into the same thing. So how Billy Graham gets around that, instead of going into somebody else’s territory like he’s going to start a new church, he doesn’t try and start a church, he just goes in preaching Christ. And he says everybody who believes in him, you go wherever you find him. So this helps all the churches, and so since it helps all the churches, they don’t find him. Well, we’re going to do the same thing, only our gospel is black nationalism. His gospel is white nationalism, our gospel is black nationalism. And the gospel of black nationalism, as I told you, means you should control your own, the politics of your community, the economy of your community, and all of the society in which you live should be under your control. And once you feel that this philosophy will solve your problem, go join any church where that’s preached. Don’t join a church where white nationalism is preached. Now you can go to a Negro church and dispose of white nationalism. But when you are, when you walk into Negro churches and a white Mary and some white angels, that Negro church is preaching white nationalism. But when you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that’s designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise, that’s based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community. It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price, don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary. One more thing. I was on a program in Illinois recently with Senator Paul Douglas, the so-called liberal, so-called Democrat, so-called white man. At which time he told me that our African brothers were not interested in us in Africa. He said, the Africans aren’t interested in the American Negro. I knew he was lying. But during the next two or three weeks, it’s my intention and plan to make a tour of our African homeland. And I hope that when I come back, I’ll be able to come back and let you know how our African brothers and sisters feel toward us. And I know before I go there that they love us. We’re one. We’re the same. The same man who has colonized them all these years has colonized you and me too, all these years. And all we have to do now is wake up and work in unity and harmony and the battle will be over. I want to thank the Freedom Now Party and the goal. I want to thank Milton and Richard Henley for inviting me here this afternoon. And also Reverend Clegg. And I want them to know that anything that I can ever do at any time to work with anybody in any kind of program that is sincerely designed to eliminate the political, the economic, and the social evils that confront all of our people in Detroit and elsewhere, all they’ve got to do is give me a telephone call and I’ll be on the next jet right on into the city. 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He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel. The Books of the Bible The Book of Amos The Basket of Fruit Amos 8:1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me—a basket of summer fruit. 2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by. 3 The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord GOD; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!” 4 Hear this, you that trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land, 5 saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great, and practice deceit with false balances, 6 buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.” 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds. 8 Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who lives in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt? 9 On that day, says the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight. 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day. 11 The time is surely coming, says the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. 12 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it. 13 In that day the beautiful young women and the young men shall faint for thirst. 14 Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria, and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall, and never rise again. New Revised Standard Version Liveology® Yoga Studios & Magazine creates uplifting content for evolving humans as we draw from wisdom across the world. Shop yogi swag and go down the rabbit hole for exclusive content. Please join our email list and tell a friend about us today. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Lyrics Yo, remember back on the boogie when cats use to harmonize like... Whooo, whooo whooo whooo, Yo, my men and my women, Don't forget about the dean, Sirat al-Mustaqim Yo, its about a thing, uh If ya feel real good wave your hands in the air And 'lick' two shots in the atmosphere... Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah... It's been three weeks since you've been looking for your friend The one you let hit it and never called you again 'Member when he told you he was 'bout the Benjamin's You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim To begin, how you think you really gon' pretend Like you wasn't down then you called him again Plus when you give it up so easy you ain't even foolin' him If you did it then, then you'd probably fuck again Talking out your neck sayin' you're a Christian A Muslim sleeping with the gin Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in Who you gon' tell when the reprocussions spin Showing off your ass 'cause you're thinking it's a trend Girlfriend, let me break it down for you again You know I only say it 'cause I'm truly genuine Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem Baby girl, respect is just a minimum Niggas fucked up and you still defending 'em Now Lauryn is only human Don't think I haven't been through the same predicament Let it sit inside your head like a million women in Philly, Penn. It's silly when girls sell their soul because it's in Look at where you be in hair weaves like Europeans Fake nails done by Koreans Come again Win win come again Brethren come again My friend come again Guys you know you better watch out Some girls, some girls are only about That thing, that thing, that thing That thing, that thing, that thing The second verse is dedicated to the men More concerned with his rims and his Tims than his women Him and his men come in the club like hooligans Don't care who they offend popping yang like you got yen Let's not pretend, they wanna pack pistol by they waist men Crystal by the case men, still in they mother's basement The pretty face men, claiming that they did a bid men Need to take care of their three and four kids then They facing a court case when the child's support late Money taking, heart breaking now you wonder why women hate men The sneaky silent men, the punk domestic violence men The quick to shoot the semen stop acting like boys and be men How you gon' win when you ain't right within How you gon' win when you ain't right within How you gon' win when you ain't right within Uh uh Come again Yo yo Come again, brethren come again, sistren come again, come again Watch out watch out, look out look out, Watch out watch out, look out look out. Girls you know you better watch out Some guys, some guys are only about That thing, that thing, that thing That thing, that thing, that thing Guys you know you better watch out Some girls, some girls are only about That thing, that thing, that thing That thing, that thing, that thing

Did you ever stop to notice this crying Earth, these weeping shores? What about sunrise? What about rain? What about all the things That you said we were to gain? What about killing fields? Is there a time? What about all the things That you said was yours and mine? Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we've shed before? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores? Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh What have we done to the world? Look what we've done What about all the peace That you pledge your only son? What about flowering fields? Is there a time? What about all the dreams That you said was yours and mine? Did you ever stop to notice All the children dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores? Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I used to dream I used to glance beyond the stars Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Hey, what about yesterday? (What about us?) What about the seas? (What about us?) The heavens are falling down (What about us?) I can't even breathe (What about us?) What about apathy? (What about us?) I need you (What about us?) What about nature's worth? (Ooh) It's our planet's womb (What about us?) What about animals? (What about it?) We've turned kingdoms to dust (What about us?) What about elephants? (What about us?) Have we lost their trust (What about us?) What about crying whales? (What about us?) We're ravaging the seas (What about us?) What about forest trails? (Ooh) Burnt despite our pleas (What about us?) What about the holy land? (What about it?) Torn apart by creed (What about us?) What about the common man? (What about us?) Can't we set him free (What about us?) What about children dying? (What about us?) Can't you hear them cry? (What about us?) Where did we go wrong? (Ooh) Someone tell me why (What about us?) What about baby boy? (What about it?) What about the days? (What about us?) What about all their joy? (What about us?) What about the man? (What about us?) What about the crying man? (What about us?) What about Abraham? (What about us?) What about death again? (Ooh) Do we give a damn? Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Get up everybody and sing! We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing Everyone can see we're together As we walk on by (And) and we fly just like birds of a feather I won't tell no lie (All) all of the people around us they say Can they be that close Just let me state for the record We're giving love in a family dose We are family (hey, y'all) I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing (sing it to me) We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing Living life is fun and we've just begun To get our share of this world's delights (High) high hopes we have for the future And our goal's in sight (We) no, we don't get depressed Here's what we call our golden rule Have faith in you and the things you do You won't go wrong, oh no This is our family jewel We are family (hey, sing it to me) I got all my sisters with me We are family (oh, I can hear you now) Get up everybody and sing We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family (get up, get up y'all) Get up everybody and sing We are family (I got my sisters with me) I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing (get up and sing it to me) We are family Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

What's your take on this? Has feminism been good for women, men, and the family? Touching on topics including entrepreneurship, living on our own terms, whether life is better for women in or out of the home, the cost of living, childcare during the early years, etc. I don’t have the answers, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Let me know in the comments. Today’s dog walking outfit: ✨Full length tie dye skirt ✨Crop sweatshirt ✨Long zip hoodie ✨Headscarf ✨15 year old white leather chucks Full Video Transcript Okay peace family, this is Christina and little Buff Buff, and we are on our daily walk as always. Today, I wanted to ask you all the question: Has feminism been beneficial or harmful for women for the family and for men, since we're all in this together? Obviously I'm going to give my thoughts, but I'm really interested in hearing what you all's perspective is on this so, before I get into the video wishing you all as always abundant life, love, joy, peace, and prosperity - not only to you but also to your loved ones and even to your enemies! Before we get into the video, outfit check! Today I'm wearing my tie-dye skirt - it's like a little casual skirt, my favorite Chucks that are like I don't know at least 15 years old maybe 20 I think I've had them since College, and my little hoodie, and then second hoodie, and I have my pretty scarf today - you know I don't wear it every day, but some days I like to wear it. And so with that, let's get into the video. I ask this as a modern woman. I was taught by my parents to believe in myself. I started the yoga business, yoga magazine, produce my own content, make products and sell them, so I'm definitely a woman who I feel has felt empowered to kind live my life on my own terms do what I want and try to make a business and be successful and all those good things. And so I live in America, United States, and I feel like the laws really empower women to be free in a way that women in so many other countries don't have that opportunity, which is awesome to me. In America, I can choose if I want to dress modestly. I can choose if I want to wear other clothes. I've worn all different types of hair, makeup, clothes throughout my life, and I like the fact that I've been able to do that and have those choices and live on my own terms. And so as of today, obviously you see me dressing more modestly, and I'm enjoying that. I also forgot to talk about my little crossbody! It's so convenient. It's a yoga mat bag, but I use it like my everyday bag, and it's like so deep like you'd be surprised how much you can actually fit into this thing. It fits a whole yoga mat, but as a handbag it's great. You can like actually go shopping with it, put a couple things. Anyway, so celebrating that freedom of being able to just live your life on your own terms, and I think that's really awesome. But then, you know, as I get older, I think you kind of start to really understand like some of the natural rhythms of life, marriage, and children, and I'm starting to bake more and obviously you're seeing me dress more modestly, and I'm kind of embracing my femininity in a certain way, where I'm like, "I can do whatever I want, but I'm still a female, I can still give birth to life, I still have the instincts to bake, and I still have the instincts to do house kind of stuff." And I think a lot of women, at least my friends I'm seeing, especially those of us who've been really independent - it's like we start out kind of strong willed woman right like "I can do anything I can do anything," and as you get older you're like, "I remember why they did some of those more traditional thing." And it's not like anyone tells you that. It's organically over time, you're kind of like, "Ah, now I kind of get why women might traditionally bake and stuff," because if you're at home with the kids, that just instinctual - instinctive is that the word? Obviously anyone can bake. I'm just saying that it seems like as we get older we kind of end up falling into a lot of natural gender roles and it's not because anyone told us that. Especially as you get pregnant and start a family and things like that, things just kind of unfold that way over and over again, and it looks like maybe that we're being taught that way, but it's really just kind of our instincts coming out. So I'm really curious to hear what you all think about feminism in particular and whether you think it's been good or bad for women. Especially when it comes to like working outside of the home, women nowadays are expected to work outside the home, whereas before, women were really expected to just be mothers and it's interesting because you have freedom versus restriction. Would you rather have the freedom to do what you want but you have to work every day, and maybe you might find a situation where you get married and you stay at home, or would you rather a situation where women have to stay home, have to cover up, and it may be an easier lifestyle - I'm sure stay at home moms might argue whether or not it's easier - but it might be an easier lifestyle, but would you rather it be enforced upon you? And so it's kind of like battling this like element of free choice, free will versus like maybe traditional values. I'm not really sure. I'm just interested to see what you all think about this, because it's something that I've been really thinking as I get a little bit older and I feel like myself fall into more traditional things, and am seeking a partner that's like seeking more traditional things. I'm like, "Oh, now I kind of get this in a way that I felt like as a younger person I really didn't get it," and um maybe it's just supposed to be that way. Maybe when you're young you're supposed to just kind of be independent and free and as you get older you kind of like change. I'm not really sure tell me what you all think about this one. I just wanted to add this last part, which is even about children. I don't know if you guys have followed like my journey, but there was a point where I started working in a daycare, teaching meditation to little kids, and I wonder even about raising children. Is it better - maybe not better or worse - but like if we had a society where we really could afford to live on one income like it used to be, maybe Society has just gotten so expensive that we have to have two people working. Is it possible to bring down the economy so it's not so essential that two people have to work? I even think about like children and child care. Everyone sends their children to child care and they have another person taking care of their kids, and I just recently heard like a really wild horror story - I'm not even going to tell it because it was just wild about something that someone was doing to the babies at this daycare, and I just wonder about like how beneficial it is. Is it better to have the mother at home with the kid? Is it better to have the kid in the daycare? There's a lot to it, and I guess these are just topics that I'm actively considering as I think about my personal life and how I want my life to go and what I want to do with you know my husband and children and all that as I go in that direction I feel. And if it's possible to live on one income and how we can make it so that it's more affordable for people to really live - I wouldn't necessarily call it traditional lives, but like you know maybe more more connected to the family is what I mean. And again, not saying that we should force people to do anything. If people want to live non-traditional lives that's why I mean I don't like the word traditional, but for families who have children, to make it more accessible for them to really like be with their kids as opposed to having to work so much just to pay for basic things. And so I don't know. Again, I don't have the answer to this you know I wish I did. I wish I had the answer and could talk confidently about what we should do, but that's not really what this is about. So if this was helpful or interesting to you, please make sure to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more. I love your comments. I love to hear your feedback on my videos and what you all think I should talk about. And as always, I love you guys and I will see you on the next one. Peace! I hope you get a bottle of Afro Oil today! Christina V. Mills is the creator of Liveology® Yoga Studios & Magazine and our products. She is a lifelong spiritual seeker, writer, and yoga teacher. Follow her on Instagram @morelifemoreyoga. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. 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And how came Jesus into the world? Through God who created him and woman who bore him. An extemporaneous speech delivered by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, OH in 1851. Truth was born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of the time. There are two published versions of the speech, though the latter version published by Frances Dana Gage is considered to be less accurate. View both versions below. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

The timing is always perfect. Just an uplifting Valentine's Day message. Your shift can come in an instant! How to get ready by becoming a vibrational match. Whatever your situation is today, focus on the present moment because God's timing is always perfect! Christina V. Mills is the creator of Liveology® Yoga Studios & Magazine and our products. She is a lifelong spiritual seeker, writer, and yoga teacher. Follow her on Instagram @morelifemoreyoga. Liveology® Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life, drawing from spiritual traditions across the world. Our entire website is an interactive experience. You never know what you'll find! Become a Member for access to all of our visualizations and our exclusive library of articles and videos. Thank you for your continued and growing support all over the world. Peace & Pineapples!

Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? The Books of the Bible Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found Job 28:1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore. 3 Miners put an end to darkness, and search out to the farthest bound the ore in gloom and deep darkness. 4 They open shafts in a valley away from human habitation; they are forgotten by travelers, they sway suspended, remote from people. 5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; but underneath it is turned up as by fire. 6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and its dust contains gold. 7 “That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it. 8 The proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. 9 “They put their hand to the flinty rock, and overturn mountains by the roots. 10 They cut out channels in the rocks, and their eyes see every precious thing. 11 The sources of the rivers they probe; hidden things they bring to light. 12 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Mortals do not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ 15 It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price. 16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. 17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls. 19 The chrysolite of Ethiopia cannot compare with it, nor can it be valued in pure gold. 20 “Where then does wisdom come from? And where is the place of understanding? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. 22 Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’ J23 “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place. 24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees everything under the heavens. 25 When he gave to the wind its weight, and apportioned out the waters by measure; 26 when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the thunderbolt; 27 then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out. 28 And he said to humankind, ‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’” New Revised Standard Version Liveology Yoga Studios creates uplifting content for your whole life. Join us on the journey of seeking God, self-study, healing, and awakening as we draw from spiritual traditions across the world. Become a Member! Members receive access to our exclusive library of articles and videos ad other special benefits. Make sure to follow us on Instagram and YouTube! Sharing is caring. Thank you for your continued and growing support. Peace & Pineapples!