Kola Quotes

#1. The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.

Kola Boof

#2. I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.

Kola Boof

#3. He who brings kola brings life.

Chinua Achebe

#4. what would be left of it by that time - would be in the Kola

Alistair MacLean

#5. I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.

Kola Boof

#6. I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me'Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'

Kola Boof

#7. The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth ... she is the only flower on earth ... that grows unwatered.

Kola Boof

#8. The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.

Kola Boof

#9. But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).

Kola Boof

#10. I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of 'sex slave' and 'prostitute' so much. I was a mistress!

Kola Boof

#11. The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.

Kola Boof

#12. As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.

Kola Boof

#13. I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.

Kola Boof

#14. I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.

Kola Boof

#15. I'm too good for assimilation.

Kola Boof

#16. I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.

Kola Boof

#17. Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable'my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.

Kola Boof

#18. Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

Kola Boof

#19. I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

Kola Boof

#20. I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.

Kola Boof

#21. I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

Kola Boof

#22. I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.

Kola Boof

#23. People don't want truth, they just want trash.

Kola Boof

#24. In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

Kola Boof

#25. And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).

Kola Boof

#26. I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

Kola Boof

#27. I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.

Kola Boof

#28. When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

Kola Boof

#29. I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

Kola Boof

#30. I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

Kola Boof

#31. I love cooking for men and making love with them'not just reproductive lovemaking but I like sex for the sake of freaking out with men.

Kola Boof

#32. What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

Kola Boof

#33. I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.

Kola Boof

#34. I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

Kola Boof

#35. As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.

Kola Boof

#36. My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.

Kola Boof

#37. If I stayed in my current job, I would continue to feel a sense of emptiness, but I would be successful in the traditional sense.

Kola Olaosebikan

#38. I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.

Kola Boof

#39. My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

Kola Boof

#40. By any means necessary, I am for Africa.

Kola Boof

#41. While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

Kola Boof

#42. I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

Kola Boof

#43. Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

Kola Boof

#44. I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

Kola Boof

#45. Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

Kola Boof

#46. My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the purple outer space of the universe. I am the charcoal that creates diamonds. I am the blackest black woman (41).

Kola Boof

#47. Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

Kola Boof

#48. In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.

Kola Boof