"A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.".
-Marcus Garvey
"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong.".¹
- Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation
"A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland.".²
-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"We make drums the same way our ancestors did 200-300 years ago. We play the same rhythms, the same songs that record the history of our ancestors."³.
-Wallace Sterling (Colonel Maroon Council)
"He who stands lives; he who sits perishes."
- Māori proverb
"Our history is a living history, that has throbbed, withstood and survived many centuries of sacrifice. Now it comes forward again with strength. The seeds, dormant for such a long time, break out today with some uncertainty, although they germinate in a world that is at present characterized by confusion and uncertainty."⁴.
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum
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A/N: This is a Musical and will be produced separately. I have most of the songs done, but... no one to sing it and NO ONE wants me to sing.
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¹https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/quote-archive1/native-american
²Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958).
³https://provensustainable.org/blog/wallace-sterling
⁴Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan feminist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. The quote above comes from her acceptance speech in 1992
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