Quotes About African Tradition

#1. I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

Ishmael Beah

#2. One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.

Mat Johnson

#5. Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Desmond Tutu

#6. But instead of feeling that little thrill I used to when she sent me pictures - because it meant she was thinking of me - it just hurts.

Emily O'Beirne

#7. Any male who uses brutality on a weaker female who has no chance of defense is a coward.

Laurann Dohner

#8. He still kept smiling. And his moustache was definitely plotting something.

Sonya Lano

#9. The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight.

Wilbur Smith

#10. A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

Bell Hooks

#11. Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experience and culture have been lost, undocumented.

Nana Awere Damoah

#12. It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.

Bill Taylor

#13. Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

Dorothy Parker

#14. As players of instruments, it is our duty to reach out and give light to those in the dark in whatever way that we can. All my actions are a fulfilment of all the African music genres - I'm only trying to maintain the culture and the tradition. I am a musician.

Sizzla

#15. Roger, we're go on that alarm

Charles Duke

#16. Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

Wangari Maathai

#17. It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham