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“This is a creole culture and what it takes  is a great ability to adapt and a willingness to do so, and still hold on.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“This is a creole culture and what it takes is a great ability to adapt and a willingness to do so, and still hold on.”

Natalie Daise (nah-tah-lee dayz), story-teller, artist

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“If you can’t hold onto the land,  you can’t hold onto the culture.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“If you can’t hold onto the land, you can’t hold onto the culture.”

Jabari Moketsi (jah-bahr-ee moh-ket-see), publisher Gullah Sentinel newspaper

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“Mine is a living culture, not one of some 200 years ago. It's a culture that continues to shape our surroundings.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“Mine is a living culture, not one of some 200 years ago. It's a culture that continues to shape our surroundings.”

Ron Daise (ron dayz), singer, culture preservationist

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“We must tell our stories and govern our own community as our foreparents did. We know that 'empty sak cyan stan upright lone.’”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PR Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“We must tell our stories and govern our own community as our foreparents did. We know that 'empty sak cyan stan upright lone.’”

Marquetta L. Goodwine (Queen Quet) (mahr-ket-tah el good-wine kween kwet), preservationist

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“The Gullah…had existed without the need for cash. Everything the Gullah people needed was done by them, among them, and you might say in coordination with the entire community.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“The Gullah…had existed without the need for cash. Everything the Gullah people needed was done by them, among them, and you might say in coordination with the entire community.”

Emory Campbell (em-more-ee kam-bull), micro-biologist, activist

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“With Gullah Geechee people we created  and preserved our language under the threat  of death for being literate.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“With Gullah Geechee people we created and preserved our language under the threat of death for being literate.”

Sunn m'Cheaux (sun mih-show), Gullah language teacher

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“Let us remember we descend  from folks who…manifested freedom  when everything else said otherwise.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“Let us remember we descend from folks who…manifested freedom when everything else said otherwise.”

Sara Makeba Daise (sah-rah mah-kee-bah dayz), Cultural History Interpreter

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“We are one, bound by the spirit of an island  and Bilali the slave. Bound by high tide,  fields, gossip, smoke mullet and our faith.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Gullah/Geechee, Gullah/Geechee - PS Blog Post Author 3/22/21

“We are one, bound by the spirit of an island and Bilali the slave. Bound by high tide, fields, gossip, smoke mullet and our faith.”

Cornelia Bailey (kor-nee-lee-yah bay-lee), story-keeper, historian

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“We try to teach our children the culture and  remind them that they can be great.  We stick to our heritage and we intend to carry on  as free Maroons as long as the world exists.”
Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“We try to teach our children the culture and remind them that they can be great. We stick to our heritage and we intend to carry on as free Maroons as long as the world exists.”

Sidney Peddie (sid-nee ped-dee), Colonel Accompong Maroons

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“Cudjoe (18th century maroon freedom fighter) was taught and observed that the land the maroons occupied belonged to all of them and its amicable distribution and use must be perpetuated.”
Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“Cudjoe (18th century maroon freedom fighter) was taught and observed that the land the maroons occupied belonged to all of them and its amicable distribution and use must be perpetuated.”

Milton MacFarlane (milll-tun mick-far-lane), author

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“Indigenous women in Jamaica live a role model lifestyle to redirect African people to a real image of compassionate family life, a unit that was totally intentionally destroyed in slavery.”
Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“Indigenous women in Jamaica live a role model lifestyle to redirect African people to a real image of compassionate family life, a unit that was totally intentionally destroyed in slavery.”

Gaama Gloria Simms (gah-mah glaw-ree-yah seems), Paramount Queen of the Maroons

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“How can we preserve our culture and maintain  our future? That's the first question we all need  to ask ourselves.”
Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PR, Proven Resilient, Proven Free Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“How can we preserve our culture and maintain our future? That's the first question we all need to ask ourselves.”

Marcia Douglas (mar-shah dug-lass), Colonel, Charles Town Maroons

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“If you chop that branch, it’s filled with water that the Maroons would drink…This is why, when we cut a tree, we plant another one to replace it.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“If you chop that branch, it’s filled with water that the Maroons would drink…This is why, when we cut a tree, we plant another one to replace it.”

Lloyd Wilks (loyd wilks), Jamaica's consul general at Toronto

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“We make drums the same way our ancestors did 200-300 years ago.  We play the same rhythms, the same songs that record the history of our ancestors.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“We make drums the same way our ancestors did 200-300 years ago. We play the same rhythms, the same songs that record the history of our ancestors.”

Wallace Sterling (wahl-lass stir-ling), Colonel Maroon Council

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“Fight in the morning, fight in the day and  fight in the night. There ain’t no giving in.  In true maroon determination, doggedness  and defiance, we will win.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“Fight in the morning, fight in the day and fight in the night. There ain’t no giving in. In true maroon determination, doggedness and defiance, we will win.”

Nichole McIntosh (neh-kole mak-in-tosh), nurse, poet, blogger

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“Africans who refused to be enslaved said, "Oh no. We insist to have the right to practice our African centered way of life as we see fit and we do not need a slave master over us.”
Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21 Proven Free, Proven Sustainable, Jamaican Maroons, Jamaican Maroons - PS Blog Post Author 3/18/21

“Africans who refused to be enslaved said, "Oh no. We insist to have the right to practice our African centered way of life as we see fit and we do not need a slave master over us.”

Nana Farika Berhane (fah-rick-ah beh-hahn), author and poet

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“There is a lot of love inside the Vodou. It is our heart and blood. So we will not back down.  We have an important and strong force with us. Without it, we could not exist today.”
Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21 Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21

“There is a lot of love inside the Vodou. It is our heart and blood. So we will not back down. We have an important and strong force with us. Without it, we could not exist today.”

Ougan Ricardo Marie Dadoune (ree-car-doh mah-ree dah-doon), priest

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“I see my role as a human rights activist and as a Manbo Asogwe (high priestess) as one…to help  to literally conjure memory, so that our sense  of self and sense of place is restored.”
Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21 Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21

“I see my role as a human rights activist and as a Manbo Asogwe (high priestess) as one…to help to literally conjure memory, so that our sense of self and sense of place is restored.”

Manbo Asogwe Dòwòti Désir (doo-what-tee day-seer), high priestess

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“We retained the language and the religion  (of Africa) so both could serve us.  I would say like two scissor tips cutting the skin, they could cut the chains of slavery.”
Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21 Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21

“We retained the language and the religion (of Africa) so both could serve us. I would say like two scissor tips cutting the skin, they could cut the chains of slavery.”

Ati Max Beauvoir (ah-tee max bow-vwahr), Supreme chief

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“I worship my ancestors. They were free people  in Africa, minding their business. Invaders came and took everything from them. The only thing  they brought with them was vodou.”
Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21 Proven Free, Vodouists, Proven Resilient, Vodouists - PR Blog Post Author 2/22/21

“I worship my ancestors. They were free people in Africa, minding their business. Invaders came and took everything from them. The only thing they brought with them was vodou.”

Manbo Beatrice Daleus (bee-ah-triss deh-looz), priestess

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