Duane Bradford:
CLASS OF 1970
Hoover High SchoolClass of 1970
San diego, CA
Duane's Story
Duane is from San Diego, California. Duane's schools include Hoover High School.
Music Duane likes includes Bob Marley, Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown. Movies Duane likes include Sherlock Holmes, Jumping the Broom, The Bucket List. TV shows Duane likes include White Collar, Leverage, Science Channel.
One of Duane's favorite quotes is:"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Frederick Douglass
Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our
research. And when you see that youâve got problems,
all you have to do is examine the historic method used
all over the world by others who have problems similar to
yours. Once you see how they got theirs straight, then you
know how you can get yours straight.
- Ancestor Malcolm X
WHEN YOU CONTROL A MANâS THINKING
When you control a manâs thinking you do not have to worry
about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here
or go yonder. He will find his âproper placeâ and will stay in it.
You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without
being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for
his special benefits.
- Ancestor Carter G. Woodson
WORDS OF WISDOM
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabul...Expand for more
ous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesnât serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people will not feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that
is within us.
It is not in just some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
For those who know, therefore there is silence at the core of the universe; from it all things continually spring forth. In the face of the noise of the material social universe, the elders strive to return to the primal silence.
-Bambara Sacred Wisdom
We dance when we are happy and we dance when we are sad. When we get ready to hunt we dance because it helps us find the animal, and after the kill we bring home the meat and dance again. We also dance when we feel sick. It helps us take away the sickness and it helps us get well. The dance is the most important aspect of our lives. It is our prayer, our medicine, our teaching, and our way of having fun. Everything we do is related to that dance.
- Twele, Koi San, Bushman Shaman
Dews pouring lightly, pouring lightly
Were used to create the world.
And likewise was done to create the earth.
So that the goodness of togetherness could
Come forth at once.
Indeed all goodness took the form of a
Gathering together in the harmony.
Now, if one ori (mind/heart) encounters good,
It will spread out and touch two hundred.
If my mind/heart is good,
It will spread out and touch you.
And if your mind/heart is good,
It will spread out and touch me.
For if just one mind/heart experiences good,
It will spread out and touch two hundred.
- Osa Gunda, Odu Ifa".
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