MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID TO ME, "WHAT A PITY YOU HAD SUCH A BIG FAMILY TO RAISE THINK OF THE NOVELS AND THE SHORT STORIES AND POEMS YOU NEVER HAD TIME TO WRITE BECAUSE OF THAT.'

AND I LOOKED AT MY CHILDREN AND I SAID, 'THESE ARE MY POEMS. THESE ARE MY SHORT STORIES.




Thursday, June 19, 2014

OUT AFRICAN LEGACY

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

We did not pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way in which they can inherit the freedom we have now is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they, in their lifetimes, must do the same.


And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may spend out sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in our country when men were free.
 So ponder on this: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We can preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth or we can sentence this generation of young people to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.
 If we are destined to fail, if this way of ours is to be lost, then at least let our children and our children's children say of us that we didn't fail because we failed to try. Let them say that at least we did all that could be done in the one moment allotted to us on earth.
I'm in. Are you?