Nina “So you’re just like a renaissance black man poetry music, photography. ”
Darius “I think it was someone who said something of Mozart the goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed. I guess you could say I kind of live like that”
An actual quote from George Bernard Shaw who also happened to say “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them”.
In reference to the scene from Love Jones characters of Nina (Nia Long) and Darius (Lorenz Tate) a ‘Nineties Black movie’ about love, poetry, heartbreak and off course the rebirth.
A gentle reminder of the ancient Afrikan who built pyramid structures throughout the ancient world and brought poetry, music, sciences and art through the acknowledgement and connection with Nature and the laws of nature wherever they went; to date has not been surpassed is the original renaissance. Rather than the widely told period of European self – superiority revival of art and literature in the 14-16th Century; along with its strange dual nature of brutality, torture, murder, rape and enslavement of highly melanated people all over the world.
The statement stuck in my mind in a frame that the general idea of renaissance sits within the confines of culture art and the eloquence of both confidence knowledge and the expression of unsuppressed talent in many forms. It also points to redefinition and the power to reinstate or better still the coming of an unapologetic spirit of surpassing the mediocrity of today and yesterday. Renaissance has another meaning ‘Birth.’ In history renaissance is often emerged by individuals who gave the rest of the world bifocal lenses to view things within their present in two dimensions as both near and far, as both adaptation and futuristic vision, as both this is what it is and this this what it can be, individuals who gifted permission to all, to be self- recognised and realised. When this individual happens to be Afrikan and living in Afrika and he/she becomes a community and that community becomes a nation and the nation become nation states united throughout the entire continent. You have the birth of an Afrikan Renaissance not for some but for all, a truly celebrated people coming in to self with a glowing light of exceptionality.
The first trimester of birthing the renaissance is redefine what has been told and raise the bar seeing yourself as the hero in your own story. Through self-recognition and love of your-self you change the game.
The second trimester of birthing the renaissance is to ‘Sankofa’ a term meaning to look back or journey back mentally to retrieve the treasures of yesterday while moving forward.
The third trimester of birthing the renaissance is to embrace Afrikan Spirituality rooted in Nature and the laws of the divine and laws of Nature and without this there can never be a true Afrikan Renaissance regardless of the brilliance of your art, music, writing and culture. The energy and power of your own spirituality in your image gives rise to what is known in ancient times as Gomer (Wisdom) Oz (Strength) Dabar (Beauty) the undertone definition of GOD is within your genius.
The Afrikan renaissance potential is within you to create a world of culture, art, writing and sciences after a long heartbreak that is not so much about city structures but how you walk on and through this earth rebirthing that which cannot be surpassed, rooted in the revival of Afrikan principals passed on through the hands of the Ancestors.
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