M. K. Asante Quotes
A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.
The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.
Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.
As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.
What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.
People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.
When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
