Afro American Studies Quotes

#1. The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.

Jay Saunders Redding

#2. The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Martin Luther

#3. Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Henry James

#4. Penryn: Oh, I wonder if I can find a pink sheath for Pooky Bear. Maybe with little rhinestones?

Susan Ee

#5. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

David Allan Coe

#6. I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

Johnny Carson

#7. You had to be rich to risk looking broke. The

Victor LaValle

#8. I don't know how to get over you

J. Sterling

#9. The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

Margaret Mead

#10. Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.
It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

Mohsin Hamid

#11. Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind; think well! Detoxify your thought and be free!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.

George S. Clason