"PROP"
"A Process Of Reaching Outstanding Progress"
"PROP"
Many of us are familiar with Langston Hughes old quote, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” and for most, it also rings true for our own lives. Life definitely ain’t been no crystal stair for me, but that never stopped me from climbing. The challenges I experienced during my ascension shaped me in ways I could not have imagined, and I am the better for it. Every struggle I surpassed equipped me with a new coping skill, a greater strength, an opportunity to enhance my future self. I came to realize where there was a lack of understanding, there was also pain, so I began to search for a reliever…I found GOD. Anger became forgiveness, low self-esteem became empowerment, and hatred became unconditional love. I began to understand that progress and purpose could also be a product of pain. As I learned to embrace my trials, I cultivated my burgeoning talent as an inspirational speaker. Sharing unexpected life gifts such as Molestation, Mental Health Issues, Being Misunderstood, the Killing of Family Members, just to name a few, released me from the captivity that secrecy of shame and unchanneled anger put me in. It took me years before I could identify my “burdens” as the gifts I currently know them to be. Even now, I’m still removing the wrapping paper from the gifts of God. We all learn in different ways, and at different times in our lives, how to handle life’s challenges. I finally got it! I share my gifts with so many people because they are searching for a pain reliever as well. Speaking about, and through, the emotional pain, misunderstanding, anger, confusion, misuse, and betrayal has allowed me to fill my aching voids with truth and love. God has covered me, and he will do the same for you, if only you trust and believe. So, the question is, “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” My answer is: Share life’s gifts with as many people as possible without being afraid of what they might think of me, knowing that my story will help heal the hearts and minds of others.
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#1 Motivational Tool that helps with "PROP" will be Listening.
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Still I Rise
BY MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. |
Mr. H. J. Bond, one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) at Morehouse Collage of Atlanta, Ga, where he attended. He gradually moved from the militancy of the student group to leadership of the establishments N.A.A.C.P. He was a writer, poet, television commentator, lecturer and a collage professor. Bond had a cool personality and youthful face and was called dashing, handsome, and urbane in the 1960’s and 70’s. Mr. Bond became the trajectory for his career as a respected statesman, he was a committed educator and most of all a lifelong civil rights activist. With that being said Mr. Bond and a group of his classmates meet in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they ignited a nonviolent student movement across the nation. Bond attendant Morehouse College in Atlanta where he studied English and was taught by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bond had the urge to use his skills to help eliminate segregation that he even put his education off a year before graduation. He faced imprisonment and violence as he set out to meet his goal. He felt the risk was more important at the time. In April 1960, Bond made history by forming a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and at Morehouse. Bond, (SNCC) committee and the Atlanta Student Movement eventually contributed to a passage of Voting Rights Acts of 1965 that granted voting rights to blacks to help eradicate inequities in education, jobs, housing, hospitals, and law enforcement. What a great impact Bond had on his life and the consequences of his actions really touched the individual lives of others that changed a country for good.
Many of us have read books, recited his quotes or watched programs and videos about “The Life of Dr. M.L. King Jr. One thing we all can agree on and that is Non-Violence was one of the vehicles he used to drive equality into our communities for African- American during segregation. Dr. King used the keys of love, hope, and peace to implement non-violence, during his mission. He believed that violence is self -defeating and non- violence is the only way. It has been said that you can murder a murderer but you can’t murder, murder through violence also you can kill a hater but you can’t kill hate it still remains. Take a look at the many killings today, hate then and there is still hate now. We must think before we act due to the affect killing has on our families, friends and communities. Dr. King said, “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Well let me help you understand why this statement is true. What is a family? It’s an incredible and unbreakable bond that has been created by mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers. When someone is killed, the lives of families and communities are changed. Murder turns love into hate, joy into anger, trust into doubt, and peace into fear. An unexpected death of a family members causes that which was once fine is now walking around caring hurt with tendencies toward denial, withdrawal, and sometimes self- isolation. We can’t turn back the hands of time but we can use the information those times has presented to us to create less painful times. Let’s try it!!!
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Black Love Day – Feb. 13th
Do you know that Love is the major ingredients along with faith, peace, and happiness, to making the tasty life cookie? In 1993 "Black Love Day" was created by Handy Kendi the founder and director of African American Holiday Association. This day was set aside for black people to celebrate and love one another at a time of year when love is already in the air. On "Black Love Day" we are to follow the Spiritual Goals of Encouragement: Self-Love instead of Self-Hatred, increase peace to stop violence and racial healing.
Black Love Moves Us In Many Ways
Powerful Movement
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Black Love Movies
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Love Inspire Business
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Educators Love
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