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Secondly, in your life’s blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. Number 2: Determination to achieve excellence Now in your life’s blueprint, be sure that you have a principle of somebodiness. I have good hair and it is as good as anybody else’s in the world. And therefore you need not be lured into purchasing cosmetics advertised to make you lighter, neither do you need to process your hair to make it appear straight. Somehow you must be able to say in your own lives, and really believe it, “I Am Black But Beautiful!” and believe that in your heart. Don’t be ashamed of your biological features. You know there are some Negros who are ashamed of themselves? Don’t be ashamed of your color. You know, it’s very unfortunate that in so many instances, our society has placed a stigma on the Negro’s color. Now that means you should not be ashamed of your color. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Number one in your life’s blueprint should be: a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth and your own somebodies. Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is: whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.Īnd I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life’s blueprint. And a building is not well erected without a good, sound, and solid blueprint. And that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, as the model, for those who are to build the building. For what you do now and what you decide now at this age may well determine which way your life shall go.Īnd whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint. This is the most important and crucial period of your lives. I want to ask you a question, and that is: what is in your life’s Blueprint? I stumbled over the speech below while I did some research for my upcoming book “ The Behaviour Architect“. Martin Luther King’s famous speech “ Future Blueprint”.