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	<title>Musings of an African Princess</title>
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	<description>a Royal Afrikan Sistah doin tha thang...and letting the world hear me!</description>
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		<title>Litany for Survival</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I would share the following from &#8220;Litany for Survival&#8221; by
Audre Lorde:
&#8230;and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.
I pray that we all remember this, as those who are teachers come forward
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Verdana">I thought I would share the following from &#8220;Litany for Survival&#8221; by<br />
Audre Lorde:</p>
<p>&#8230;and when we speak we are afraid<br />
our words will not be heard<br />
nor welcomed</p>
<p>but when we are silent<br />
we are still afraid</p>
<p>So it is better to speak<br />
remembering<br />
we were never meant to survive.</p>
<p>I pray that we all remember this, as those who are teachers come forward<br />
to share. And as we learn the ways of our ancestors from one another.<br />
&#8220;we were never meant to survive&#8221;. However, we are here. </span></p>
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		<title>Our Powers</title>
		<link>http://musings.princess-adinasse.com/2007/09/02/our-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethiopia&#8217;s queens will reign again, and her Amazons protect her shores and people.  Strengthen your shaking knees, and move forward, or we will displace you and lead on to victory and to glory.
Amy-Jacques Garvey
On this journey, not many people understand the work  I do, much less the who&#8217;s and whys that I am.   In [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s queens will reign again, and her Amazons protect her shores and people.  Strengthen your shaking knees, and move forward, or we will displace you and lead on to victory and to glory.</p>
<p>Amy-Jacques Garvey</p>
<p>On this journey, not many people understand the work  I do, much less the who&#8217;s and whys that I am.   In my observation of my life&#8217;s path, all that I have endured has led me to this day&#8230;to discover that I descend from the greatest of monarchs and my destiny is to lead us all to reconciliation.</p>
<p>This work will not be stopped, take notice.  Queens will once again rise up all over the world and protect Mother Africa, the greatest Queen of all, while she reaches out to her children for reconciliation.  What has been ordained cannot be stopped.  What is cannot be undone.  Each of us has what the other needs to lead us all to freedom.</p>
<p>Forward Ever&#8230;backward Never</p>
<p>The struggle intensifies and is in the hands of the Mothers.</p>
<p>Princess Adinasse</p>
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		<title>Afrikan Sistahs and Revolution</title>
		<link>http://musings.princess-adinasse.com/2007/08/30/afrikan-sistahs-and-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beauty shops
could have been
a hell of a place
to ferment
a              revolution
~~~Willi M. Colemen from &#8220;Among the Things That Use To Be&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beauty shops</p>
<p>could have been</p>
<p>a hell of a place</p>
<p>to ferment</p>
<p>a              revolution</p>
<p>~~~Willi M. Colemen from &#8220;Among the Things That Use To Be&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Emotions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotion indicates that a speaker believes in the validity of an argument&#8230;expressiveness should be reclaimed and valued ~~ Patricia Hill Collins
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		<title>What Keeps &#8220;YOU&#8221; From True Happiness?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Keeps you from true happiness?
What is it that keeps you from true happiness?
Does your idea of utopia include winning the lottery?  Having a more expensive automobile than your friends?  Having a larger big screen television than your co-worker?  Or does it include ads on tv, radio, magazines and billboards telling you their way is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="blogSubject">What Keeps you from true happiness?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" align="justify"><font face="Calibri">What is it that keeps you from true happiness?</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Does your idea of utopia include winning the lottery?<span>  </span>Having a more expensive automobile than your friends?<span>  </span>Having a larger big screen television than your co-worker?<span>  </span>Or does it include ads on tv, radio, magazines and billboards telling you their way is the road to true happiness?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Well, they are totally wrong, wrong, wrong!<span>  </span>Unless you have some innate <span> </span>personal love of lottery winnings, expensive cars, or keeping up with the Joneses, don&#8217;t allow yourself to buy into someone else&#8217;s idea of your best life.<span>  </span>If you do, you&#8217;re in for a huge fall-flat on your face.<span>  </span>Understand, no one but you has even the slightest clue as to what makes you happy or how to live your best life.<span>  </span>If they tell you they do, they need to take deep, deep breaths and move the heck on.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">What you love is as unique to you as your dna.<span>  </span>You need to understand that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love, take a good hard look at people who are actually living their best life.<span>  </span>You see peace, confidence and contentment in their eyes and patience in their actions.<span>  </span>They know they&#8217;re in the right place at the right time, dong the right thing.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Deep inside of yourself, you know what you love don&#8217;t you?<span>  </span>You know what makes you happy.<span>  </span>You know your dream of finding the right mate, the right job, losing a few pounds, living a healthy life, even traveling the world.<span>  </span>You wish you could live a more holistic life; or begin or own a business, even put your own spiritual principles, no matter what they may be into action.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Perhaps you don&#8217;t have any dreams or aspirations, or maybe you can&#8217;t articulate your dreams, but you can sense them deep inside you.<span>  </span>Even if they are not clearly defined or articulated, they are never far away.<span>  </span>Generally speaking, true dreams are almost impossible to get rid of.<span>  </span>The dreams trouble and tempt you.<span>  </span>They keep reminding you that you&#8217;re not satisfied with your life, that something crucial is missing.<span>  </span>If my words are disturbing to you, you are just not living your best life.<span>  </span>You need to learn to take deep cleansing breaths and move on to what serves you best.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">As impossible as this may seem, this is very lucky for you..this state of moving outside your comfort zone.<span>  </span>If your hopes, dreams and aspirations didn&#8217;t&#8217; trouble you, you may forget them entirely and never know if they could have become reality.<span>  </span>This is what we as a people have been trained to do. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">I&#8217;m not going into <span> </span>what happened to us in the slave dungeons, on those horrible slave ships or those dang plantations.<span>  </span>We should know our history.<span>  </span>But it all began for us at that time..the feelings of worthlessness, of settling for less than what we are worth, or having others impose their truths about us.<span>  </span>We must move out of that victim state and walk into our own beautiful reality.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">If your dreams didn&#8217;t trouble you, you&#8217;d forget them, remember that.<span>  </span>So this exercise in moving your comfort zone to live your best life is an excellent one to gage where you are and where you&#8217;re going. Forgetting your dreams is what you have been trained to do.<span>  </span>Whenever we dream out loud, we are criticized for being foolish by people who really have no clue how special we are.<span>  </span>As a result, we abandon our hopes, aspirations, and dreams without giving them an inth of a chance.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Whenever we begin to think of our dreams, we quickly recite the reasons why we can&#8217;t.<span>  </span>When we do that we wonder why we feel like failures, or that our lives have no meaning or purpose.<span>  </span>How do I know all of this?<span>  </span>There was a time in my life when I got an A+ for FAILURE and another for QUITTING.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">But I learned valuable lessons the hard way.<span>  </span>I learned some very valuable principles in the process that catapulted me like a cannon shooting out of a rocket-forward.<span>  </span>They are:</font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in"><span><span><font face="Calibri">1.</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">       </span></span></span><font face="Calibri">If you can&#8217;t change the people around you, then change the people around you.</font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in"><span><span><font face="Calibri">2.</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">       </span></span></span><font face="Calibri">Awareness + Knowledge = Choice</font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in"><span><span><font face="Calibri">3.</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">       </span></span></span><font face="Calibri">I am one of a kind</font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in"><span><span><font face="Calibri">4.</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">       </span></span></span><font face="Calibri">I had divine gifts that I needed to begin to use</font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in"><span><span><font face="Calibri">5.</font><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal">       </span></span></span><font face="Calibri">I didn&#8217;t have to change ME to change my LIFE</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Trust me when I tell you this.<span>  </span>I had ot take a whole lot of deep breaths and begin to move on and lose the madness.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">I began to love me, and all that was ME.<span>  </span>I went into recovery (link), not to change the authentic me, u tot learn to cope and change the way I thought about me.<span>  </span>I found what motivated me, so I could be gentle with myself.<span>  </span>I also learned that having my dreams fulfilled and internal validation of who I was improved my sense of self.<span>  </span>I was more energized as people noticed the change in me and my own feelings of who I was validated the compliments.<span>  </span>I was on a mission, and I was cocky, even confident!</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">You will find as you begin to love you and all that is you, self love will improve you. You&#8217;ll become a much better person when you learn to through out the garbage others have left in your mind that decayed deep in your soul. Understand something, that was never really you.<span>  </span>It was the person someone imposed upon you.<span>  </span>You were living up to someone else&#8217;s idea of who you are or how you should be.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Again, trust me when I tell you that having your dreams fulfilled, knowing who you are, is one of the greatest accomplishments or gifts you can give yourself.<span>  </span>Not fulfilling your dreams is a loss to the planet and most of all to you because the world needs all of our gifts.<span>  </span>Malcolm X once said, so succinctly, &#8220;If you want freedom, then fight for it.<span>  </span>If you can&#8217;t fight for it, you don&#8217;t deserve it.&#8221; </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Even though you may think you are pleasing yourself, you are helping all of us by sharing your God given talents.<span>  </span>It&#8217;s only right and fitting that we give our best back while living our best life.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Let&#8217;s take this journey together.<span>  </span>You&#8217;ll be living your best life before you know it.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Many blessings!</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri">Princess Ademide Adinasse</font></p>
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