"I recognize the history and the powers of the three 'blood religions' for what they've done and what they are. The missing thread is in our belief and knowing what to do. Belief is stronger than religion. You've mentioned African spirituality without (probably for the sake of time and space) delving into what African spirituality is and is not. Spirituality, the subject, spoken in the same breath as religion in common usage confuses the power of one, with the illusion of the other. If the few who do are seeking a return to the indigenous practices before Western Christianity and Islam are unable to convince the African practitioners of the Christian and Islamic faiths of the validity of the ancient spirituality both the Africans and those throughout the Diaspora will remain cowards in the comfort of what they know, and never change because the belief in the devil is as strong as the belief in the white man, and his dream of life. To my eyes and the practices I've employed over the years of my personal evolution we have two tasks: kill the white man within us, and unlearn everything we know." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 1.11.14
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