Top 56 African Authors Quotes
#1. From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!
James A. Barlow
#2. Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.
Giles Foden
#5. Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Chinua Achebe
#6. The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.
Ondjaki
#7. Love Warriors embrace the battlefield at dawn, blaze the banner of hope til dusk then silently splash the waters of joy through our dreams at night.
Cathie Wright-Lewis
#8. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson
#9. No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.
Ondjaki
#10. You're an incredible woman, Lela. I would battle a thousand Terrademons to reach your heart. But I cannot challenge or defeat an enemy that's already dead. I cannot fight for a heart that doesn't want to be won.
N.D. Jones
#11. I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I'll never forget my librarian.
John Lewis
#12. She was turned on by him - his scent, his smile; he was the manifestation of seduction. Under normal circumstances, she'd be tempted, but might have had enough willpower to resist him. These weren't normal circumstances, however. Tonight, she was certain she wanted him in her bedroom.
Norian F. Love
#13. Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.
N.D. Jones
#14. Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
Octavia E. Butler
#15. There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
L.V. Lewis
#16. I plan to take thinking outside the box to a whole new level
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#18. In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#19. We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#20. The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps.
Ondjaki
#21. Do you feel it? The connection between us? The pull? The power of our link?
N.D. Jones
#22. For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever.
Kerry D. Brackett
#23. Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.
N.D. Jones
#24. Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex
Norian F. Love
#25. Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
Chinua Achebe
#26. If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard...
N.D. Jones
#27. DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,
TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!
WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#28. His voice took on a thick silkiness to it that made her want to press her body closer. "Octavia, you are welcome to touch any part of my body you wish. Just be careful of what you start. Once I lay claim to something, or someone, I will not part with it or them willingly." - Kade Egon
Sunshine Taylor Reddick
#29. Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#31. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#33. Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.
Bernice L. McFadden
#35. He doesn't tell Aunt Fostalina she looks good, like I've heard other people do; he tells her she looks like sunrise.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#36. When their voices didn't reach my ears,
I rebelled against my own skin
too young to realize that without their
stories I would starve.
Kiana Davis
#37. Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.
Jean Toomer
#38. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
Mildred D. Taylor
#39. Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#40. I don't strive on being the most beautiful woman in the room! I strive to be the most unique! The one who stands out, the one you will never forget.
Sahndra Fon Dufe
#41. 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
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#42. My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.
N.D. Jones
#43. If these walls could talk, the buildings would stutter, wouldn't remember their names.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#44. Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#45. 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.
George Dawson
#46. Have you come to terms with what's going to happen between us?
N.D. Jones
#47. Any woman with kinky textured hair - can wear it, love it and manage it. She only needs the right tools, inspiration and motivation.
Monica Millner
#48. This book is dedicated to every woman who has ever felt self-conscious about her size. Outer beauty comes in all sizes, shapes, heights, ages, and colors. And inner beauty will always shine through, no matter what the packaging.
Raynetta Manees
#50. Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.
Ali A. Mazrui
#51. If you're colored, you get the short end of the stick. If you're a woman, you get the short end of the stick. So what do we get for being colored and women?
Sherri L. Smith
#52. The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.
Hazel V. Carby
#53. I took one look at him, my mouth started watering and my panties moistened with thick fluid as if he had touched my sensation and made me instantaneously combust.
Siva D.
#54. In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#55. Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
Aberjhani
#56. Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.
Raynetta Manees
