Africanist Quotes

#1. Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father's folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn't do this and offer me this background, I wouldn't be here.

Ving Rhames

#2. American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

Toni Morrison

#3. I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

John Henrik Clarke

#4. The lemming types came out of their houses with flashlights. Going to light up the world with those flashlights, I guess." He laughed. "I stopped them all from watching Happy Days. Forced their IQs up a couple notches.

Chris Fuhrman

#5. I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

Matt Bomer

#6. Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

Carl Jung

#7. I do feel that houses have faces - and feelings too.

Alanna Knight

#8. To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

Susan McClary

#9. For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.

John Edward Williams

#10. The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Bell Hooks

#11. They must be doing something right up there in Canada.

Hugh Hefner