M.k. Asante Quotes

#1. As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.

Juliet Asante

#2. What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

Juliet Asante

#3. My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

Warren Spector

#4. She continued. "I love my people, James," she said, and his name on her tongue was indescribably sweet. "I am proud to be Asante, as I am sure you are proud to be Fante, but after I lost my brothers, I decided that as for me, Akosua, I will be my own nation.

Yaa Gyasi

#5. Philly is a state of mind I'm always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it's served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

M. K. Asante

#6. It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

William S. Burroughs

#7. The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Molefi Kete Asante

#8. I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

Karen Russell

#9. I'm strictly a sugar-free Red Bull guy. I'd rather enjoy my sugar intake elsewhere.

Seth Meyers

#10. Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Molefi Kete Asante

#11. What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

Molefi Kete Asante

#12. I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and um, so that sort of natural idealism just um sort of carried over into my feelings about joining the army.

Peter P. Mahoney

#13. The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor's edge for life to exist

Sunday Adelaja

#14. All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#15. I write-down to speak-up.

M.K. Asante Jr.

#16. Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.

William Shakespeare

#17. The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything, writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin.

Malcolm Gladwell

#18. There's a war between two wolves inside everybody. One is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other's good. It's love, peace, beauty, happiness, truth, hope, joy, humility, kindness, and empathy.

"Who wins...?"

"The one you feed".

MK Asante

#19. I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.

Elizabeth Bowen

#20. A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

Molefi Kete Asante

#21. Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?
L: Damn you, Kira ...

Tsugumi Ohba

#22. Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit.

Juliet Asante

#23. As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

Molefi Kete Asante

#24. I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

Tamara Feldman

#25. If you have to fall, fall like a dry leaf, follow the wind, drop on the river; you will meet the ocean and your life will never ne the same.

Marcus L. Lukusa

#26. Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

Alan Coren

#27. When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

M. K. Asante

#28. Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

M. K. Asante