Le Anne Lindsay SIFT Unity Potluck Offering

SIFT Members came together (via Zoom) to celebrate the first night of Kwanzaa and shared a poem, song, writing, or any thoughts of Unity.
I chose to share the below quotes from author, activist Audre Lorde…

Named New York’s Poet Laureate in 1991, Audre Lorde once described herself as a “black lesbian feminist warrior mother” who used her words to address sexism, classism, homophobia, and racism in America.

Audre Lorde Quotes

Kwanzaa has seven core principles, or Nguzo Saba:

1. Umoja: Unity – To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

2. Kujichagulia: Self-Determination – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.

3. Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility – To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and solve them together.

4. Ujamaa: Cooperative Economics – To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

5. Nia: Purpose – To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

6. Kuumba: Creativity – To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

7. Imani: Faith – To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.