Those of us who are African Americans must seize the accumulative knowledge of the past and intertwine it into a beautiful tapestry of the future. We can no longer use as a justification the constraints our ancestral fathers endured. As the mythological Phoenix ascends from the ashes to become a new creation, so must we!
“We have to do with past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future. To all inspiring motives, to noble deeds which can be gained from the past, we are welcome. But now is the time, the important time.” —Frederick Douglas
