Cheikh Anta Quotes

#1. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#2. European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#3. Thank you to all who serve or who have served our great country and to all who support our military! God Bless

Julie K. Weber-Torres

#4. Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

Cheikh Anta Diop

#5. We want our happy little clouds to float across the sky

Bob Ross

#6. Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#7. Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

Cheikh Anta Diop

#8. I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Imre Kertesz

#9. Egypt's prestige abroad was so intact that the "King" of Tyre declared: "All industries came from Egypt and all sciences first shone forth there" (cf. Pirenne, II, 505).

Cheikh Anta Diop

#10. Pharaoh Chephren (circa 2600 B.C., Fourth Dynasty), who built the second Giza pyramid.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#11. Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#12. Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#13. there are no fruitful speculations outside of reality.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#14. In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.

Cheikh Anta Diop

#15. I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Henny Youngman

#16. The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

Agatha Christie