“Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.” ThinkingGivingKindFactsHelpingCoursesOpportunityBeliefSocialRolesRevolutionNeededBalanceHealthyDemandDeterminationTasksInstitutionsDefinitionsAggressiveAfflictionConfrontationUnhealthySocial Roles Author:Barbara Deming
“The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.” SpiritualPoliticalSocialRealizingEconomicBecomingBalanceDeterminationRealizationCultivatingRegenerationResurgenceSpiritual Balance Author:Nnamdi Azikiwe
“I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.” IfsStillsHandsEarthLastsPastForceCommonEffortStruggleBalanceSucceedEgoShotsDeterminationIntentionConvictionIf I CouldContradictionGravityNothingnessArrowsFutilityInevitabilityDetermination To Succeed Book:Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940