Welcome to Franklin Speaking

Greetings!  It's an honor to have you check out this page and I hope that you find something here that will bring you back continuously.  Here, I have finally found a way to share my thoughts, feelings, pain and joy with you.  Please breeze through the pages.  The blog section has a subsection where I will do my best to submit daily (or weekly) poetry.  However, don't miss the Discussions page.  You're thoughts and opinions are certainly welcome.

If you are familiar with the work of The Queen (QueenFolayan) then you know you will see writings here about my family, my personal growth, my new baby girl, and new husband.  But you can also look forward to news about Jackson, MS, entertainment talk, celebrity stuff. 

I am looking forward to befriending you through this journey of my world.  Find my contact info on the front page if you'd like to reach out.  Oh, take a few minutes to sign my guestbook!  I'd love to know you stopped by!

DON'T MISS THE POEM OF THE WEEK (see Queen's Poetry)

Keep Shining!

*Thus Says The Queen*

 

THE BLACK AND PROUD CORNER

 

 In tribute to the founders of the Black And Proud School

  Bro. Howard and Sis. Mary 

       *Black Power, Every Hour ~~Raise Your Fist

featuring quotes by

MARCUS GARVEY

"She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her."

"A race without authority and power, is a race without respect."

"If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it."

"Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realised the light of their own freedom."

"Let us in shaping our own Destiny set before us the qualities of human JUSTICE, LOVE, CHARITY, MERCY AND EQUITY. Upon such foundation let us build a race, and I feel that the God who is Divine, the Almighty Creator of the world, shall forever bless this race of ours, and who to tell that we shall not teach men the way to life, liberty and true human happiness?"

"Lagging behind in the van of civilization will not prove our higher abilities. Being subservient to the will and caprice of progressive races will not prove anything superior in us. Being satisfied to drink of the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our Creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny."

 

"Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own."

 
"We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world."
 
"Point me to a weak nation and I will show you a people oppressed, abused, taken advantage of by others. Show me a weak race and I will show you a people reduced to serfdom, peonage and slavery. Show me a well organized nation, and I will show you a people and a nation respected by the world."
 
"Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life."
 
"To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself."