Being Creative 2

My Knowledge and Wisdom T-shirts.
Or
Ethos T-shirts.

Concept: My ethos

In order to hide information from people hide it in a book, some people don’t read.

My ethos is to spread historical knowledge and inspirational affirmations once quoted by people of importance, as well as the remaining population of the world. By using self-advertising, people advertise thoughts, reasoning, wisdom and history, through words written on their T-shirts.

VOCABULARY/QUOTE
QUOTECABULARY
QUOTABULARY

T-shirts/words/quotes to inspire, discuss, provoke, to think, to be.

Commission graffiti artists, stencil, and spray, use children alphabet blocks etc

Use African, Caribbean, Indian history World history

Ethos: Characteristic spirit and beliefs.
This is a form of attention, which are good intentions.
The distinctive habitual character and disposition of an individual, group, race.

My ethos = is to leave a legacy, I want to be remembered for impacting the human development.










Quotes to use on the front of my t-shirts.
Quotes to use on the back of the neck on my t-shirts.

0.Is this plagiarism?

1.Emancipate yourself from mental slavery-Bob Marley. (Redemption song)

2.Ethos. n. The distinctive habitual character and disposition of an individual, group, race.

3.There’s nothing to fear but fear it’s self.

4.Every man/woman has a right to decide his/her own destiny. Bob Marley.

5.Death is the greatest adventure.
6.History-Herstory
7.Every seven years there are major changes in life.
8.My vision is my religion.

9.Ludavic-Ruler of Italy –15th Century. Commissioned Leonardo De Vinci to paint the last supper. He was a MOOR -black Arab.

10.Othello-Blackamoor
11.Genuine love is the path in the life to substantial joy.
12. The more I love the longer I love, the larger I become.
13.Genuine love is self replenishing.
14.As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present ever more constant.
15.The more I nurture the spiritual growth of others, the more my own spiritual growth is nurtured.
16. I am a totally selfish human being. I never do something for somebody else but that I do it for myself.
17.Love is everywhere, I see it. You are all that you can be, go on and be it. Life is not perfect I believe it. Come and play the game with me. I’ll prove it.-John Denver.

18.Without the discipline of genuine love, freedom is invariably non loving and destruction.

19.Free love is an ideal.
20.Freedom an discipline.
21.Any genuinely loving relationship is a disciplined relationship
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22.THE PHOMENIC ALPHABET AS CHART-TRANSLATE WORDS

23.Passion is a feeling of great depth.
24.Shallow brooks are noisy-still waters run deep.
25.Genuine love involves an extension of oneself.
26.One’s feelings are the source of one’s energy.

27.To attempt love someone who cannot benefit from your love with spiritual growth is to waste your energy.

28. Genuine love is precious.
29. Energy self discipline derives from love, which is a form of will.
30.Self discipline is usually love translated into action.
31.Quotes from LYRISIS.
32.Spirit has no colour.
33.Music is the essence of who we are.
34.A woman’s charm is not an illusion.
35.You are not lost; you have not yet been discovered.

36.When we look far enough back into Yoga and India’s spirituality we meet our African Ancestors.

37.Dalit is the name given to India’s African/black population-Gandhi called the Harijans-Children of GOD.

38.Dalit –Hebrew word meaning broken, crushed.
39.Renaissance period-Painters deliberately painted in their painting
40. Your mouth is the gateway to your body.
41.Men are simulated by sight. Women are stimulated by voice.
42.No man is an island.
43.As life gets hard, as it often will, you must remember that it’s GOD’S will.
44An horizon is an imaginary line you see when you walk towards it.
45.My life is one big drama.
46.Intoxicated by the energy we’ve ignited.
47. Identify the most successful person at work, and follow, learn from example. -King of the hill-Hank
48.Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed, until it is fixed. –James Baldwin.
49.Believing is seeing
50.Seeing is believing.

51.Chocholic
n. 1.a person who will do anything for chocolate.
2.a.person who indulges in the heavy consumption of choc late.

52.My vision is my religion.
53.Energy never dies it only changes-Einstein
54.Love is something you deserve.
55. How do I know I exist?
56.How do you know you exist?
57.Life without pleasure is only half lived.
58.Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
59.You make your own luck.
60.Work for a purpose.
61. Any fool can pull a trigger-Bruce Lee –Enter the dragon.
62.I have a dream. -Martin Luther King.
63. Become the changes you want to see. -Gandhi

64.Anything is possible-will, determination, struggle, hard work, suffering, great people suffer. List names Diana, Oprah, Martin Luther, Richard Prior etc

65.Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of life.
66.Living in fear is a life half lived.
67.Women wear your wrinkles like a badge of honour.
68.Turn disasters into opportunities.
69.Everything looks better after lunch. -Winston Churchill.
70.The unexpected always happens.
71.Aim high to live high!

73.The opposite of love is not hate. It’s indifference, the fact that you hate me tells me you still care. There’s still a connection between us. -Brie Desperate Housewives.

74.Winners make thing’s happen-Losers let thing’s happen.
75.All wars are holy wars.
76.Most important part of our culture is our family.
77.Students of mystery.
78.The development of religion of most people is obviously their culture.
79.Falling in love involves a collapse of ego boundaries and diminution of the normal sense of separation that exists between individuals.
80.The job of a parent is to be of use to a child and not to use the child for personal satisfaction.
81.Love is an intangible, incompletely measurable and supernatural phenomenon.

82.Genetically talented means beautiful image of the face.
82.Genetically talented means successful, creative intelligent, smart, sincere, confident, and opinionated, etc
83.My DNA. -Who am I?

84.
58% - Sub Saharan African
34% -European
7% -South American (Tainos)
1% -Other

85.Tainos-(tie eno) -(tie ino)
Native Americans-Travelled from South Americans.
Original inhabitants of Jamaica.

Awarwaks were the second.
They both lived side by side.

86.Severing of those forms of human relationships that were most precious to the Africans, the ties with family, kinsfolk, and tribe, relationship that governed the behaviour, thinking and life of each individual. African.

87.Indenture was a form of servitude that was most common in Maryland, in the 18th century.1/6 of the population was made up of white serfs, servitude for them was limited. African slaves were forced into perpetual servitude.

88.Narcissism-Sensual gratification found in one’s own body, excessive self admiration.

89.Narcissistic –adjective.

90.Puncualatity is the virtue or the bored.

91.We are defined by our colour everyone else is defined by their race We are not black, but Afro-Caribbean, Afro Guyana, Afro- British etc
You don’t hear people saying yellow (Chinese) brown (Indian), no! It’s Asian Italian Polish Spanish etc.

92. The 1st civilisation in India was called the Indus Valley civilisation, which was founded by the Dravidians. The Africans of India, who migrated from Africa.

93.India was once part of Africa.

94.Theystill say to hide information from Africans hide it in a book because they don’t read. …. Prove them wrong.

95.Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
96. A degree is a level of commitment.
97.Spirit has no colour.
98.Music is the essence of who we are.

99.Love is a gamble
I’m so glad
I’m winning
Luther Van dross

100.1,000 kisses are never too much.
101.Theystill say to hide information from Africans hide it in a book because they don’t read. –Well sorry mate I’m sharing what I know.

102. I affirm of Jamaica that we are a great people. Out of the fire and suffering and neglect, the human spirit has survived-patient and strong quick to anger quick to forgive, lusty and vigorous. But with deep reserves of loyalty and love and a deep stress and for joy in all the things that make life a good and blessed one. -

Norman Manley one time Prime minister of Jamaica. Words spoken towards the end of his life.

103.Up, you mighty race. -Marcus Gravey.

104.It is out of your own minds out of your own faith in yourselves out or your own conviction about the future of the country that the spirit of national unity and of patriotism will be built. -Norman Manley

105.Many African societies see to it that the young learn the genealogies of their descent. A sense of depth, historical belongingness, a feeling of deep rooted ness and a sense of a sacred obligation to extend the genealogical line. African tribes see God as participating in human history. They do not sever man from his total environment, so that in effect human history is cosmic history, it is HIS/HER universe. He/She is active in it and apparent silence may be a feature of his divine activity.

106.Souls are seen to be the same in their aspirations.

107.
You stole my history
Destroyed my culture
Cut out my tongue
So I can’t communicate
You mediate
And separate
So myself I should hate

Jimmy Cliff

108.If people are shaped by the view that they are made into history by some chosen few who are the real makers of history, you stabilize from being dominant to being dominated. If we could ever succeed in planting in people, not only the idea but the fact, in their consciousness, that they are the makers of history hen you alter the relationship between them and those who hold them in their hands.

109.People of Africa and Asia are said to be victims of Europeans, but seldom in their own right as people with history and cultures of their own, with a past and present and future which must be understood In terms of their own actual character and circumstances.

110.Europe created a society that was totally immoral. Legislation made the African slave, male or female, property a chattel no longer a person. In doing so the concept of the family as a basic social unit was destroyed.

111. The white owner exercised the functions of the father as protector, provider, source of authority etc. The natural father was downgraded to progenitor ancestor and the woman from mother to breeder.



112.The young of slaves stand on the same footing as other animals. The master was owner, not the parent. Women were breeder’s animals whose monetary value could be precisely calculated in terms of their ability to multiply their numbers.

113.United States Civil Rights Act 1957
114.Marcus Garvey Day 19/8/…
115.Jamaican Independence Day 6/8/…

116.Toussaint L’Ouverture-Defeated the armies of Napoleon and took Haiti to independence.

117.The AST Atlantic Slave Trade 1875 10.000,000 Africans were brought as slaves to plantation America.
2,000,000 were bought to Jamaica.

118.Print flags of the Caribbean and USA and Africa

119. Self esteem and questioning pride in racial ancestry are powerful motivating forces.

120. African identity, as essential steps to power and in the first instance to self determination.

121. African the cradle of mankind and our original homeland.
121.Urban civilisation in Mesopotamia the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, Egypt and the valley of the Nile, the valley of the Indus and the valley of the yellow river in China.

123. The basic unity of human beings and of membership in one family is the Human Race.

124.
Say is my skin beautiful
Soft as velvet
As deep as the blackness of a weeping night.

125.Jamaica’s greatest stories-New Day by Victor Stafford Reid.

126.
The whole reason for my writing is to have the black people (Africans) proud of themselves and their history.-Victor Stafford Reid..

127.Africa has all the main races of the world and each group can rightly claim to be African.
128.
Ethnologists and Anthropologies have classified them (Africans) broadly as follows:

1.Bushmanoid people with light yellowish skin are found in parts of eastern/southern Africa.

2. Caucasoid people with light to medium brown and pink skin in Southern, eastern and northern Africa.

3. Mongoloid people whose skin pigmentation ranges from black to brown, yellow and pink.

4. Negroid people black to dark brown and brown, who are from almost everywhere in Africa.

5. Pygmoid people with light-brown yellowish skins.

129.
African Negroid people contributed to the growth of Egyptian civilisation and that Negroid people were using tools and planting grain 6,000 years before the Egyptians.

130.The oldest Pyramid-Built 2,600 years before Christ.
131.You better know yourself!
132.The ruined city of Stone-Zimbabwe
133. The biblical city of Ophir- seaport of King’s Solomon’s ships.
134.1655-English Colonial Rule in Jamaica.

135.
Human history began in Africa the original homeland of the groups of Nomadic hunters who first moved into Asia and Europe. And whose descendents moved from Siberia into the Americas many millennia later.

136. 150 years of enslavement.
137.Money and colour count for more than anything else--Marcus Garvey.





138.
Three great leaders came out of the emerging Urban Civilisation.

Sargon- The king of the city of Kish.
Established the empire building phase followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Hellenes then………spread worldwide.

Abraham the father of the Jewish people. Moses who led the Jews out of bondage.

Taharka-Pharaoh at 42 years old

139.
Migration from Africa
Hunters and food gathers from Asia, not Europeans were the first colonisers of the new world. More than 40,000 years ago. They changed appearance through climate change.
The first nomads travelled to the Caribbean and developed into Tainos and Carib Indians. Both groups of people spoke a common language ARAWAKAN. Hence the Arawak Indians.

140.
Mayas of Central America, Inca of South America, Tolteca and Aztecs travelled to the Caribbean and developed into Tainos and Caribs.

141.Jamaica was inhabited by the Tainos between AD 600 and 900 Arawak Indian were first freedom fighters of Jamaica.

142. Blue Mountains was a refuge for the Awarwaks Indians, the Spanish conquered the island of Jamaica before the arrival of the first Africans.

143.
Tainos/Caribs
Arawak Indians-Asians
Maroons-Africans

144.
As early as 3372BC at the time of the Egyptians were developing the use of numerals. Mayas of Central America, Inca of South America, Toltecs of South America and Actecs of Mexico used a form of picture writing, religious institutional accounts on bark and on stone.
Aztecs were applying the concept of zero 1,000 years before the Europeans acquired this knowledge from India..

145.
Between 2000 BC AND 3000 BC, groups of these nomads left tropical forests of Venezuela and Guyana and Yucatan Peninsula. To explore nearby coastal waters of the Caribbean.

146.Caribs chose the Southern islands and Tainos evolved in the region of by Puerto Rico, Hispaniola HISPANIA, Cuba, Jamaica, and Bahamas island.

147.1492-Carib and Tainos first encounter Europeans.

148.Yamaye-Jamaica

149. Being smart is COOL.
150.The Maroon phenomenon came about after the capture of the island by the English.

151. Spanish slaves –Owned by the King of Spain
152.Slavery was a way of life like the Greeks and Egyptian until it became violent when the English became involved.
153.Mulattoes-Africans and European descendents
154.The Roman Catholic was in control of Jamaica.

155.
Only a few Africans were on the island of Jamaica with the population mainly Tainos-original people of Jamaica.

156. Tainos-original people of Jamaica originated in Asia travelled and lived in islands around the Caribbean.

157. The African bloodline in Jamaica began with a small group who arrived with their Spanish colonists in 1509.

158.English speaking white Jamaicans began when the English took Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655.

160.Elizabeth the first warranted deportation of Africans.
162. British history has to include slavery.
163. Black Madonna-Russia




164.
Jamaica was made up of Tainos/Arawak Indians. Africans were brought there to build numbers and then became prominently African-Jamaicans.

165.
Traditional Pygmy (African) hymn.

In the beginning was God.
Today is God
Tomorrow will be God
Who can make an image of God?
He has no body
He is a word, which comes out of your mouth
That word, it is no more
It is past and still it lives
So is God.
God governs the universe he life of Mankind.

166.Children are buds of expectation and hope.
167.Ghana and Nigeria the ancestral homeland of Africa Jamaicans. Ashanti people/Yoruba/Ibo/Ibibio of Nigeria

168.African Brazilians-Closet ties with Angola –African. Americans of South Carolina with Angola, Benin.

169.
African –American and African American - the fact that deep within him, nurtured by his experience and culture, there was an irreducible core of free, creative, spontaneous human nature of some elementary sense of identity, dignity and worth that empowered him to resist, those who sought to transform him, a person into a useful tool, a slave.

170.For with the gift of children, the family, tribe the nation will die.
171. When African men and women entered Africa they were already educated and steeped in their national culture.

172. The culture contained amongst them a tradition of warriors, female warriors.

173. Slavery is as old as Man; it was not limited to one race or class it was not for Africans only. In the view of the ancients it was a law nature to which all humans were subjects, Europe, Asia, Africa contained slave taking and holdings.
174.There were internal and external markets well before the Atlantic slave trade.

175.
Celts, Nubian, Africans, Numidians, and Gauls, were all found in the old world. Throughout the Mediterranean, the Black sea region, the Middle East, India and the Far East.

176. Slav-denoted a member of the largest linguistic and ethnic European group includes Slovaks, Serbs, Croats, and Russian etc.

177. Africans were found in Persia, Basra, Bahrain, and Ganges.
178.African contributed to the armies of the Muslims of North Africa.

179.The old African slave trade the Atlantic slave trade made it possible for slaves to be integrated into society. He was inferior because of his status as a slave not because of his colour.

180.
Atlantic slave trade-1415
When the Portuguese conquered Centa opposite Gibraltar.

181.Being devout Catholics the Portuguese it was a religions duty to take Muslim prisoners.

182. Nuno Tristao in 1441 brought back the slaves form the coast of Africa south of Cape Bojador.

183. 1443 the island of Arguin was found
184. 8/8/1444 the first public sale of slaves was held in Lagos

185. The Tainos inhabited the islands of the Caribbean for hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus in 1492.

186. Dominicans are of mixed European and African ancestry.
187. Nanny of Jamaica was a Maroon -Maroon runaway groups men and women of Jamaica.

188.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Leader of the only successful slave revolution in history. Als helped the ending of slavery throughout the western hemisphere.

189. Sam Sharpe-Helped the emancipation of Jamaica.
190.Trans-Sahara trade was first Atlantic slave trade was second

191.
Africa was the source of manpower. Caribbean and Brazil were producers of the plantation commodities. Europe was the market for the commodities. Between 1500 and 1880 11,000,000 Africans were moved by force, from the west coast of Africa.

192. Portuguese started the slave trade but it was the Dutch, French, English and other European countries made it Hell.

193. 400 years of slavery.

194.
Indus Civilisation-Dravidians first settlers from African to build India’s first great civilisation.

195.King Solomon/Queen of Sheba
196.Spanish Jamaica.
197.Thomas Jefferson-equal and exact justice to all men, freedom of the press and freedom of person.
198.The largest and most famous of all moroon settlements in Brazil was the Negro Republic of Palmares.

199.The Palmares republic stands as a remarkable example of the abity of the African to create a centralized kingdom with an elaeted ruler out pf a large number of people from various groups from Africa and from various groups in Brazil.

200.The Ashanti wars helped slavery as the Ashantis became a slave dealing state.

201.
1670’s large numbers o Africans began to expand the sugar plantations. 1658-1,4000 slaves were bought to the island. 1664-8,000, 1673-9,500, 1703-45,000 1701-1810 one hundred years Jamaica had an increase of 662,000 African slaves. Many were bought from Ghana, Nigeria and Benin.
202.
Ashanti and Coromanti were known as the most turbulent and desperate people on the coast of Guinea. They were accustomed to was from infancy, energetic of mind, hard and robust. They brought with them huge ideas of independence, they were dangerous inmates of the West Indian plantations.

From the Akan speaking people, the Fon people of then Dahomey, the Yoruba from the forested region of the Niger, the Ibo from the eastern region of modern Nigeria, the Ibibio and Efik speaking people from the delta of the Niger and the Calaber river came the men and women who shaped Jamaican history in the eighteenth century. From them came those who led the first uprising which started the first maroon war.

203.William Thorpe- 1857. The first African British to be awarded the Victoria Cross. Served for 25 years to the British. Born in Canada, the on of slaves.

204. William Gordon. 1893. The second African to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

205.Carbon from a cremated body can be turned into a diamond.
206. The Northern Lights. Changed particles turned to energy, which mixes to create light. ARAWA

207. You don’t need to be defined by your past-Nigella Lawson
208.You double your power if you stare at yourself in the mirror.
209. Super fly chic.
210.Who needs ambition when you have security.
211. There’s nothing to fear but fear it self.
212. I am not a colour I am a person of African descent.
213Winners make thing’s happen. Losers let thing’s happen.
214. Fashion fades style is eternal.-YSL
215.Jon E B GOOD COLLECTION
216.Cheeky Chappy.
217. RAR-Rules and Regulations
218.V.I.P=Very important person.
219.As black as night.
220.The British Dream.
221. D.I.Y – Do it yourself.
222. It’s only through hhistory that we know we exist.- Blackbeard-Pirate real name TEACH.
223.The further backwards you look the further forward you will see.-Winston Churchill.
224.Jazz is like listening to colours.
224.Love is a gamble, I’m so glad, I’m winning-Luther Vandross
225.1,000 Kisses is never too much.
226.To reach people you have to give them a ppiece of themselves.-Marvin Gaye.
227.ROYEL.
228.Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination circles the world.-Winston Churchill.
229.When we look far enough back into yoga and India’s spirituality we meet our Arfican Ancestors.
230.Any fool can pull a trigger.-Bruce Lee-Enter the dragon.
231.Believin g is seeing.
232.Men are stimulated by sight. Women are stimulated by voice.
234.Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
235.