Marcus Garvey on Dusting the Self Off and Picking the Self Up

Mis-steps, stumbles and other challenges feature in Afrikan life. The natural norm of progressive Afrikan living is not a make-believe fantasy of absolute perfection. Such as quality is the preserve of the Creator Supreme. Yet, the missioning onward of upward of Afrikan souls necessary holds a striving of divine perfectibility from which grand excellence and empowerment comes. The imperative route to grand civilisation is never totally absolved of a mistake here or a mistake there. Still, the Afrikan souls naturally missions on learning from the experiences that has been in order to build victoriously in the now and in time to come. As such relations in the levels of self can reflect mis-steps and stumbles. Sometimes this can be corrected in such a way as to continue with particular relations for successful building to rightfully endure. Other times rightful endurance has to be effected through the dissolution of that relationship. The Afrikan steeped in knowingness of self and exercising appropriate wisdom, duty and responsibility in mission for Afrikan ascension has the capacity direct the self accordingly.

Of course, during the Maafa of recent centuries others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to manufacture problem circumstance and destructively exacerbate even the smallest mis-step. Compounding challenges and inducing new destructive vices with alien contaminants of ill, foreign forces of anti-Afrikan agency demonstrate being bent on crushing wholesome Afrikan life. Yet still, through self-knowingness and mission ascension of their own kind, Afrikan souls can surely exercise their ability to know and apply what best works relationally for onward and upward thrust.

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey with deep wisdom-filled knowingness articulated the following:    

“It is no use worrying over split milk, and so we need not worry too much over the lost opportunities that as a race we have suffered. Our duty is not to look forward hopefully for the best. The [Afrikan] has before him a splendid career of usefulness. He has many more opportunities to take advantage of. Will he seek them and grasp them? My advice is that he does so immediately. In looking forward he must realise that he is his own keeper and his own advocate. If he is to get anything our of like it must be the result of what he has put into it. He must put thoughtfulness, energy, determination, ambition into the affairs of life. He must not be compromising, neither must he be silly enough to think that others will do as much for him as he will do for himself”.

The dynamics and circumstances of the contemporary world must be handled with realism and thus imagined could-have-been relations or ones that cannot effectively work with specific persons is a part of that reality. This does not mean that persons cannot find progressive solace elsewhere, it means that a misstep or mismatch is just that.  

This powerful and primary people of creation must victoriously ascend if righteous order is to prevail.

The inspiration and wisdom guidance of the great Marcus Garvey is surely mission-compelling for Afrikans worldwide. Here, the imperative thrust of independent learning can be energised throughout the levels of the self: