Asante Quotes

#1. The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.

Gene Hoffman

#2. Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.

Ralph Richardson

#3. Brooke?" he finally found the sense to ask. "What are you doing here?"
"I need a gun."
This was not how his dream was supposed to go.

Shannon K. Butcher

#4. People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.

Johnny Depp

#5. As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.

Juliet Asante

#6. What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

Juliet Asante

#7. And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

Phil Collins

#8. Make every effort to hear directly from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. She continued. "I love my people, James," she said, and his name on her tongue was indescribably sweet. "I am proud to be Asante, as I am sure you are proud to be Fante, but after I lost my brothers, I decided that as for me, Akosua, I will be my own nation.

Yaa Gyasi

#10. Philly is a state of mind I'm always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it's served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

M. K. Asante

#11. If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey MacKay

#12. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Molefi Kete Asante

#13. The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

#14. Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Molefi Kete Asante

#15. What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

Molefi Kete Asante

#16. Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

Edward Abbey

#17. Nathan had just announced that come hell or high water,he was going to fix his flower.He just needed time to find out how.

Julie Garwood

#18. There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Harold Bell Wright

#19. The years go by too quickly to waste them in silent prisons of hate.

Karen Kingsbury

#20. I write-down to speak-up.

M.K. Asante Jr.

#21. There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy.

"Who wins...?"

"The one you feed".

MK Asante

#22. A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

Molefi Kete Asante

#23. Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit.

Juliet Asante

#24. As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

Molefi Kete Asante

#25. Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

T. B. Joshua

#26. When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

M. K. Asante

#27. Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

M. K. Asante