Africana Quotes

#1. You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.

Henry Louis Gates

#2. It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#3. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

#4. I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

Dan Auerbach

#5. History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be.

John Henrik Clarke

#6. I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.

Janina Gavankar

#7. I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

Ken Livingstone

#8. I've got one Aussie flag on my car. It would be nice to have two.

Tom Lehman

#9. I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Christian Bale

#11. Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

#12. What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

#13. Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

Donald Judd

#14. Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

Siddharth Katragadda

#15. When you feel that life has nothing to offer you, then offer your greatness for the humanity. You will have nothing to lose but you will win and change the humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#16. And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

Paul Beatty

#17. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

#18. Bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate ... happens to me on a daily basis!

Edith Wharton

#19. If you're disappointed, we could always make it true. No one else has to know. Jut you and me and cute beavers.

Rachel Gibson