The term, “Black power” is an empty statement unless it is fortified with the essential ingredients needed to generate and sustain power. Your ability to achieve success in life is based, in part, on seizing opportunities when they arise or on creating new opportunities. However, your personal success (and ultimately our collective success at acquiring power) is severely compromised when your health and vitality are not optimized

I work in a 90% female dominated environment and the look of sheer disappointment on most of the women’s’ faces was overwhelming which some people voiced and some people didn’t. Which got me to thinking was in the big deal about not having a diamond as your main stone?

It’s not good enough to make the argument that rappers are just making music that reflect their background and environment. They have to be about the business of figuring out ways to improve their former environments, so others can come up too. It’s almost the equivalence of growing up financially broke, and pledging to remain broke, because that’s all you knew growing up. None of these entertainers would do that.

In ancient times the rites of passage was a very important tool put in place to insure the survival of culture and values. The younger generations had to rely on the older generations in their community to get their start.

... it started off as a practice to exercise out a weakness right , so I saw that I had a weakness of not being able to finish things so in my attempt to better myself or to grow from this position I became this and it all came from me stepping outside my comfort zone