Quotes About African Diaspora

#1. We've all been influenced by other people ... If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

Mariah Carey

#2. It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Cynthia Heimel

#3. For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.

Ben Aaronovitch

#4. You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters ... and that's why the characters need to be real.

Jordana Brewster

#5. The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

Sherryl Jordan

#6. Dance with who brung you

Randy Pausch

#7. The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#8. I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. Other people's opinions of you are none of your business.

Robin Sharma

#10. The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Noam Chomsky

#11. People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.

Jamaica Kincaid

#12. You, sir, are a twat.

John Goode

#13. I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Aasif Mandvi

#14. I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

#15. I have always enjoyed storytelling, especially narratives told through the voices of the African diaspora. Their influences are so diverse, so vast. I love incorporating elements of fiction and fantasy into their realities.

CO Patrick

#16. The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#17. An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

Henry Louis Gates

#18. Well, it certainly is nice to be free from the threat of that lamp, my boy." Chains drew a last breath of smoke, then rubbed his dwindling sheaf of tobacco out against the roof stones. "Was it informing for the duke? Plotting to murder us?

Scott Lynch

#19. Who we are as African-Americans, as black folks in the diaspora, our cultural destiny, has been shaped by both the enslaved and the free.

Bell Hooks