What could be the true art of Love? Marcus Gulvey, the former and famous leader of Pan-African Movement said that;
> Never fall in love to the point of losing
control of yourself. If you do, you will become somebody else´s slave and that
experience will surely... cause you to lose your best character.
> Never love a person more for his or her
physical appearance or personality. First investigate the character,
disposition, temperament, behaviour and thought of the person and when you find
in that person, along with good physical appearance... all the qualities or as
many of them as possible that would tend to satisfy you and make you happy
through a lifetime, then love that person.
> When you love one for the qualities you
think that person possesses and those qualities are not fully developed, help
that person to develop them...
> It is better to wait to find the person
with the majority of the qualities you like, than to rush into loving for a
minimum of those qualities. as soon as you get over your passion, you will
still be searching for those other qualities... you will seek them elsewhere
and break up your happiness.
> Don´t put your absolute Divine trust in
human love; because man is bad and is susceptible to change.
> Never love anybody for companionship,
unless that person has the majority of qualities that you like and appreciate.
> The Negro has loved even under severest
punishment. In slavery the Negro loved his master, he safe-guarded his home
even when he further planned to enslave him. We are not a race of haters, but
lovers of humanity´s cause.
>
It was one of my greatest tasks to get Negroes to love one another. Thanks God
I have succeeded in getting 11 million to know the art of true love,
self-ambition and self-pride... it is no fault of your own to hate you own
brother. It is the fault of the other fellow who taught you to hate the very
mother that brought you into this world, in order that you might become a
disorganized group... You must now cast off that old fashioned coat of hate
and... Cultivate among yourselves true love, true fellowship, self-ambition,
self-pride, self-respect, and when you have done that the world around will
respect you.
> The source of all good thought is love
-Divine love; and now could we rise to loftier and nobler heights without emulating
that love even to the human limit. It is the possession and the execution of
this love... that makes the black man think kindly even of an offending
world... These are the thoughts that inspire Divine goodness with patience,
notwithstanding the vicious and wicked sins of men.
