Top 97 Kwame Quotes
#1. We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him.
Kwame in The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi
Arthur Japin
#3. He don't read. You know he doesn't have a book in his office? Not a fucking book in the shelves. Ain't that some shit? (Adolph Mongo speaking of Kwame Kilpatrick)
Charlie LeDuff
#4. I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
Kobe Bryant
#5. The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
Kwame Nkrumah
#6. It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.
Kwame Nkrumah
#7. Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.)
Kwame Nkrumah
#8. In short - to overstate the point only slightly - because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#9. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#10. I didn't want to be president; I didn't want to be governor; I didn't want to be a congress person. I just wanted to be mayor of the city of Detroit. I lived there my entire life.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#11. The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
Kwame Nkrumah
#12. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#13. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#14. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#15. I am not alone is doubting the imperative to respect cultures, as opposed to persons; and I believe we can respect persons only inasmuch as we consider them as abstract rights-holders.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#16. Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah
#17. This is my first summer [with] no trouble. I ain't go to jail for speeding. Didn't go to jail for DUI. I didn't break my foot. I didn't break my other foot. I'm one step ahead of the game already.
Kwame Brown
#18. We have eaten theology with you, will you now eat theology with us?
Kwame Bediako
#19. A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#20. The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.
Kwame Nkrumah
#21. Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#22. Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike.
Kwame Alexander
#23. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.
Kwame Alexander
#24. Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.
Kwame Addai
#25. I should have blown this mic like I said I might
Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.
Kwame
#26. In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#27. The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#28. Books are fun, Nicholas, he says,
they're like
amusement parks
for readers.
Yeah, well, maybe
they would be fun
if I got to pick
the rides
sometimes, you answer
Kwame Alexander
#29. The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
Kwame Nkrumah
#30. Basketball Rule #9
When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop.
Kwame Alexander
#31. (And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#32. Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#33. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
Kwame Nkrumah
#34. Basketball Rule #10
A loss is inevitable,
like snow in winter.
True champions
learn
to dance
through
the storm.
Kwame Alexander
#35. Did y'all arrest Uncle Bob's turkey? It was just criminal what he did to that bird, wasn't it? You
Kwame Alexander
#36. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
Kwame Nkrumah
#37. Basketball Rule #4
If you miss
enough of life's
free throws
you will pay
in the end.
Kwame Alexander
#38. Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa's impoverishment.
Kwame Nkrumah
#39. Thought
It does not take
a math genius
to understand that
when you subtract
a mother
from the equation
what remains
is negative.
Kwame Alexander
#40. Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad)
Hustle dig
Grind push
Run fast
Change pivot
Chase pull
Aim shoot
Work smart
Live smarter
Play hard
Practice harder
Kwame Alexander
#41. I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
Kwame Kilpatrick
#42. The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#43. We all have what it takes to do exactly what we want to do in life, no matter what anyone else says. If someone tells you, "You can't do this because you are [fill in the blank]," I say embrace the challenge. Wear it like a new pair of Converse or Jordans. Meet it head-on.
Kwame Alexander
#44. Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.
Kwame Nkrumah
#45. It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
Kwame Nkrumah
#46. Basketball Rule #1
In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.
Kwame Alexander
#47. A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Kwame Nkrumah
#48. Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#49. The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#50. Morality, on the other hand, as Immanuel Kant insisted, is ultimately practical: though it matters morally what we think and feel, morality is, at its heart, about what we do.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#51. What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#52. Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#54. Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.
Kwame Alexander
#55. Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.
Kwame Alexander
#56. Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
Kwame Nkrumah
#57. The poems
were cool.
The best ones were
like bombs,
and when all the right words
came together
it was like an explosion.
Kwame Alexander
#58. In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
Kwame
#59. men, especially in the African American community" know they're not supposed to cry or "bow down,
Kwame Kilpatrick
#60. I know in the Christian church the old ladies use to say "what the devil meant for bad God meant for good." So some of the things that I think they went out and tried to be detrimental to my life saved me in a lot of ways.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#61. The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#62. I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#63. Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#64. We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
Kwame Nkrumah
#65. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#66. If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
Kwame Brown
#67. Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
Kwame Nkrumah
#68. We face neither East nor West; We face forward
Kwame Nkrumah
#69. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#70. It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
Kwame Nkrumah
#71. You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.
Kwame Alexander
#73. We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.
Kwame Nkrumah
#74. To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#75. Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#76. A lot of people say they want to leave this city to go somewhere else. Not me. I love this place for what it is. Ugly and pretty. Rough and tender. Chaotic and smooth. Loving and murderous. All of it.
Kwame Dawes
#77. Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#78. I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.
Kwame Nkrumah
#79. The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
Kwame Nkrumah
#80. Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.
Kwame Alexander
#81. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.
Kwame Alexander
#82. We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Kwame Nkrumah
#83. It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect
and shame comes when you lose that title
a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#85. I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#86. Basketball Rule #7
Rebounding
is the art
of anticipating,
of always being prepared
to grab it.
But you can't
drop the ball.
Kwame Alexander
#87. This poet is a griot in search of a village.
Kwame Dawes
#88. When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#89. At long last, the battle has ended!
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
Kwame Nkrumah
#90. Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame Nkrumah
#91. The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.
Kwame Nkrumah
#92. My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#93. All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and belong to the African nation.
Kwame Nkrumah
#94. The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
Kwame Nkrumah
#95. It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
Kwame Nkrumah
#96. Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.
Kwame Alexander
#97. Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.
Kwame Dawes
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