Ramon Léonzo

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."
-Malcolm X

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

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Trust the success that you want will be granted you. And that all the forces of the universe will be brought to your aid just for you to achieve that success. But you must first trust Allah and have confidence in Him.

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Our big opportunity may be right where we are right now. We have the sense to realize that a single idea can change the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we live, that right now is one of those moments when we have the ability to influence the future right now. Believe it!

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Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.

Marcus Garvey

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

Cesar Chavez

Dear Black Man, You are worth more than you could ever image. Your blackness should not be a target, yet we live in a world where that is a reality. The world will do everything it can to diminish your dignity. But your dignity and worth are not prescribed to you by the world. No in fact, your inherent dignity was ascribed to you by the One who created all things and did so for his glory. Black man, you are worth it. Black man, you have dignity. Black man, you have value, my God your value is infinite! Black man you are something special. Just because someone fails to acknowledge something does not mean it is any less true. But I am writing this now to acknowledge the fact, you are worth it black man. Do not shame your blackness, hold it high.

“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.”

Malcom X

No, you cannot touch my crown 
I worked too hard to make it my own 
It is to be looked at and admired 
This should be known

No, I will not manipulate the beautiful coils my crown represents 
Because as Beyonce once said, 
I WOKE UP LIKE THIS 

No, my hair is not nappy 
Naps are for cotton balls in cotton plants 
In a world where people were happy
To enslave my people

My hair isn’t 4A, 4B, 4C or whatever 
Category I must confine my crown which has 
A variety of S’s and Z’s, 
Coils and curls
And different ethnicities

Not too long ago, they wanted us to tame our curls 
To imitate the straight manes of the other girls 
We let our hair turn crispy and brittle 
To satisfy a society which I belittle 
Because they don’t appreciate this curly crown 
And the media’s bigotry is sound 
They encourage us to imitate 
A looser curl pattern of lighter skinned girls 
Which I refuse to fabricate

My dark-skin girls need love too 
Light skinned, brown skinned, dark skinned
We are a beautiful crew

So, let’s wear our crown proudly 
Even though many don’t have a clue
Of the rich culture and history that loudly 
Beckons to be reckoned with 

Do they know that in the 70s and 80s
The afro was a symbol of being black and proud?
Do they know

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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.”

James Baldwin