December 2011
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“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year,...”
– Unknown
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Kwanzaa - Day 6
Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity
Using creativity and imagination to make your communities better than what you inherited.
Strive for discipline, dedication, and achievement in all you do. Dare struggle and sacrifice and gain the strength that comes from this. Build where you are and dare leave a legacy that will last as long as the sun shines and the water flows. Practice daily Umoja,...
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Stay in yo lane
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Kwanzaa - Day 5
Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose
To restore African American people to their traditional greatness. To be responsible to those who came before (our ancestors) and to those who will follow (our descendants).
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“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”!”
– - Audrey Hepburn
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Kwanzaa - Day 4
Ujammaa (oo-jah-MAH): Collective economics
To build, maintain, and support our own stores; establishments, and businesses.
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hollup hollup where @DollarMenuSweet come from … Did @DollarMenuTweet approve of this??
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Kwanzaa - Day 3
Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective work and responsibility
To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community.
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Childhood vs. Adulthood
Precious is the time,
When the gift
Of childhood is granted.
Where magic is real
And wishes are possible.
It is a world where
Miracles appear
In their simplest forms.
The sound of laughter
Is the music that wills
The soul to dance.
Adulthood is Nature’s mistake.
There is no magic,
Only tricks;
And desperate wishes
To relive the past.
Miracles become a test,
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Kwanzaa - Day 2
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
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myraekua asked: where are you from?
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Kwanzaa - Day 1
Umoja (oo-MOE-jah)
Unity
“To strive for a principled and harmonious togetherness in the family community, nation and world African community.”
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It’s still raining …
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“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Christ, which is the Lord.” May your Christmas be filled with the love of a Savior who in his perfect grace came to earth with nothing, born to poor parents and lived to give us His all, His very life so that we might have everlasting life through him.
Merry Christmas
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