Breath Of My Ancestors

In this remarkable collection of prose, poetry, illustrations and documents, Ty Gray-EL petitions African-American men and women to love themselves. He challenges readers to open their minds to the possibilities of love by starting with themselves. If you start with yourself, he maintains, the rest will take care of itself. If we start loving ourselves unconditionally, we will save the world one individual at a time.

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[Godalmightythelord]

Ty Gray El that is a phenominal thought and message. Now Ill be up all night tosing and turning, thinking about the powers of our ancestors. Once again I am inspired by the mastery of your work. You are a truly an enlightened man. We need millions more like you.

[3245789]

My Black Brothers and Sisters We Got to get it together We have to love,nourish,protect each other as days of old We need to value our Black Sisters and Brothers life, stop the blood shed that run down the streets into the gutters value the breath that God has given each of us whats worth kill each other over taking a life that we can't give back, don't you think we've had enough? WE ALL NEED TO START NOW ,we first turn to GOD and seek his face and directions.

[lmdw]

I thought this was beautiful. Not only his voice, but the entire thing. Very well done. Although I'll have to say, there are lots and lots of things that come out of Africa, and they come this way (towards America). Not all of it to brag about though. Some positive, some negative.

so just remember ppl this is poetry. Very good poetry.

[oneleslie]

uhm, but there is metaphor

[freewoman1000]

@ericown effects of colonism sum1 gave dem self wrongly in da hopes of a beta life but more dan likely rape

[up157j]

This is beautiful..........the voice of a Black Male that is calming......yet invigorating... Do it Brotha

[ericown]

i am a Asian and i just do the my ancient ancestors project thingy and found out 2 of my ancestors is white

[22brigid]

I love this, but actually, there ARE hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean too.

[JohnnyAlpha8]

Uh no...there is no connection between morality and meteorology as the poem states.

[breathofmyancestors7]

kuonankrma: Its sad that some people only want to find fault. I never suggested excluding any Commandment.

You are the one who said 'we should only'. I never introduced that phrase into this dialog.

Did you even hear what I suggested?

My suggestion is that if we honor our fathers and mothers as the Commandment instructed, then perhaps we could get the other nine accomplished as well.

Narrow-mindedness is what landed us in this position in the first place. Let's learn to love instead of hate.

[AEHMUSIC]

TY GRAY EL! As an aspiring spoken word artist and fellow black I commend and applaude you my black brother. This shook me to my core...all I could say was "my God". I love the way how you mingled science and fact. As it says in the Word of God (Romans 12:19) "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord". May God have mercy on the american south. I truly do believe this is the breath of our ancestors.