African Quotes

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.

But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re mine to make

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!

qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great

Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, " she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

African-Amendment.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.

Dear Police:You can't protect me and be scared of me.

Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.

I feel sorry for you, Detective Esteban. Because I'm all out of patience, and you're all out of time. I'm sure we'll see each other again someday. In Hell. Save a seat for me.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

How much does an elephant weigh?

It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has left us in a beggarly state, waiting on God for things we could produce by and for ourselves

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.