Top 48 Kola's Quotes
#1. 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.
#2. The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth ... she is the only flower on earth ... that grows unwatered.
#3. 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.
#4. 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).
#5. 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!
#6. 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.
#7. As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.
#8. I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.
#9. 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.
#10. I'm too good for assimilation.
#11. 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.
#12. 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.
#13. 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.
#14. 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.
#15. 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.
#16. 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.
#17. 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.
#18. 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.
#19. People don't want truth, they just want trash.
#20. He who brings kola brings life.
#21. In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.
#22. 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).
#23. 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.
#24. 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.'
#25. My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
#26. I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.
#27. 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.
#28. 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.
#29. 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.
#30. 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.
#31. I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.
#32. 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.
#33. My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.
#34. 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.
#35. what would be left of it by that time - would be in the Kola
#36. 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.
#37. When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.
#38. By any means necessary, I am for Africa.
#39. 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.
#40. 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.
#41. 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.
#42. 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.
#43. Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.
#44. 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).
#45. The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.
#46. Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.
#47. 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.
#48. I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.
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