African Feminism Quotes

#1. A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

James Earl Jones

#2. When in doubt, take baby steps, taste the water and be cautious all the way. When assured, hit the road, jump in the sea and swim away from the shore to connect with your dreams

Sameh Elsayed

#3. Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.

Jon Jones

#4. We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters,

Pope Francis

#5. Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

Irrfan Khan

#6. Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Umberto Eco

#7. Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

Malebo Sephodi

#9. I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Lukas Foss

#10. How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?

Malebo Sephodi

#11. I personally am tired of being a subject of study and rescue. A subject that is not imagined upon to have their own thought patterns.

Malebo Sephodi

#12. Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.

Bobbi Brown

#13. It was hard to love a woman that always made you feel so wishful.

Zora Neale Hurston

#14. But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

Bill Vaughan

#15. Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body

Malebo Sephodi

#16. I do criticise the narrative that excludes women and continually put men in the forefront.

Malebo Sephodi

#17. As long as you're happy, who cares what everybody else is doing?

Shannon Stacey

#18. Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

Alfred Adler

#19. At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.

Malebo Sephodi

#21. To misbehave us to denounce the social norms that limit individuals based on who they are. That to make history is to upset patriarchy, a system that is intent on controlling and marginalising others.

Malebo Sephodi

#22. If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have never been a slave; even today, inside me, here, and here, I am still a free woman.

Manu Herbstein