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Kujichagulia: Self-Determination begins with me.
 Are your circumstances defining who and what you are? Each of us must determine to define ourselves and control our responses to the circumstances we encounter -- with just one minute.
I've only just a minute,
Only sixty seconds in it.
Forced upon me, can't refuse it,
Didn't seek it, didn't choose it,
But it's up to me to use it.
I must suffer if I lose it,
Give an account if I abuse it,
Just a tiny little minute,
But eternity is in it.
-- Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
THE SECOND DAY OF KWANZAA
KUJICHAGULIA
Kujichagulia (koo-gee-cha-goo-LEE-ah) means self-determination and is the second day of Kwanzaa. On this day, we pledge to define ourselves, to NAME ourselves, to create for ourselves, and to speak for ourselves, instead of being defined, named by, created for and spoken for by others. On this day we design for ourselves a positive future and then vow to make that
prophecy -- that DREAM -- a self-fulfilling one.
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