Cheikh Diop Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Roy Romer

#3. That's how people live, by telling stories. What's the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? "Tell me a story." That's how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. 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

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

Cheikh Anta Diop

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. A good thing about being so close to someone is that they know you so well. A bad thing about being so close to someone is that they know you so well.

Lindy Zart

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

Cheikh Anta Diop

#10. I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

Anthony Jeselnik

#11. YF-4K pre-production aircraft, followed

Eric Brown

#12. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there

Robert Hunter

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

Cheikh Anta Diop

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

Cheikh Anta Diop

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

Cheikh Anta Diop

#16. It is never late, pursuit your ambitions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. France ... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

Bill Maher

#18. Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

William Pfaff

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

Cheikh Anta Diop