Africanism Quotes

#1. The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle

Robert Sobukwe

#2. When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

Rashid Johnson

#3. African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

Julius Nyerere

#4. Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Alice Childress

#5. A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maurice Blanchot

#6. Embrace the human race

Thabiso Monkoe

#7. Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

Chris Brogan

#8. i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.

Peter Standish Evans

#9. Luck, normalcy, fate ... none of those seemed to be on our side. Our very being together went against all the odds. All I knew was that something good had begun. A flame had been lit. And the whole universe was watching to see if it would be blown out.
All I could do was hold my breath. And wait.

Amy Plum

#10. Of course, things always seem more impressive when you're a little kid.

Emily Fridlund

#11. Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something much more meaningful, much more valuable. A life lived and relived, then, emitting intensity and beauty only achievable by a journey through pain.

Cirilo F. Bautista

#12. However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath.

Martin Luther

#13. I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

Michael Bond

#14. 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

#15. There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.

Mike Pence

#16. Whenever a word 'nigga' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?
and the correct answer is Not really.

Auliq A