Homosexuality In Africa Quotes

#1. The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

Chantal Zabus

#2. [Mark] Epprecht's larger thesis [...] is that Europeans introduced homophobia, not homosexuality, to Africa.

Chantal Zabus

#3. In pre-colonial Africa, men who had sexual relationship with older men almost always married a woman later in life and had children. Exclusive homosexuality would not have been and is still not a viable option for Africans who value wealth and patronymic extension through marriage.

Chantal Zabus

#4. As is often the case, an individual who has been racially oppressed may be blind that the same mechanisms of exclusion and denigration are at work in gender oppression.

Chantal Zabus

#5. I found that there is only one thing that heals every problem, and that is: to love yourself.

Louise L. Hay

#6. Out in Africa examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same sex desire, as it is at odds with an apparent context of heteronormativity and emphasis on reproduction, in a pan-African context, from the nineteenth century to the present.

Chantal Zabus

#7. Manage your energy, not your time

Paul Dickey

#8. God was a clever idea ... The human race came up with a winner there.

J.G. Ballard

#9. I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Dolly Parton

#10. When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

Octavia E. Butler

#11. A lot of kids owned their own interplanetary vehicles. School parking lots all over Ludus were filled with UFOs, TIE fighters, old NASA space shuttles, Vipers from Battlestar Galactica, and other spacecraft designs lifted from every sci-fi movie and TV show you can think of.

Ernest Cline

#12. Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Ana Monnar

#13. African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.

Chantal Zabus

#14. Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Robert Collier