Teachings, reflections and truths from the Quiet Warrior.
Our lack of having proper context can be compared to lack of gravity. Like gravity, context helps to keep one in the proper orbit and grounded in reality relative to everything else within and outside the orbit.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
In basketball, when you get the ball, you turn and face your opponent so you can see the entire floor and all of your options. What I do is teach our people how to see the whole floor. When you can see the whole structure and all the elements, then you know how to move to protect yourself and your family.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
We are fighting against a system, and you cannot defeat the system with a program. You need a system.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
We need to have a winning endgame formation, formula and strategy that will lead us to and across the Black liberation finish line.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
Our endgame is Black liberation.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
It doesn’t take that many of us to turn this thing around.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
Most people call it miseducation. I call it misconception, because the concept is the basis for all thought and action.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
I heard brothers say over and over, ‘I’m trying to get myself together.’ And I finally asked, ‘What self is he talking about?’ I came up with this idea that we have these different selves—a psychological self, a cultural self, an economic self, an education self, a health self, a spiritual self, a social self.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
We have these different selves and we have to get our different selves together.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
We do need external allies, but we should be allies to ourselves by stopping subtle suicide and self-hatred. That’s your biggest ally—is yourself.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
When someone is off track, they are diverted. I call it D-I-E version—they’re engaged in different versions of death. What we want to do is put them back, or Black on Track.
— Baba Kamau Kambon
I used to use the expression that we are at war. As I evolved my understanding and did a deeper analysis, I realized that war was being waged against us. We were not at war, but war was being waged against us.
