THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE
- BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors,
- BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared
- BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors,
- BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing,
- BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering,
- BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within our
- Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our
- We ARE our brothers and sisters.
- IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues,
- ----Maya Angelou .