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Idowu Koyenikan
“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Michael Bassey Johnson
“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Thomas Sowell
“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States.”
Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Carter G. Woodson
“At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.”
Carter G. Woodson

Rosa Luxemburg
“What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”
Rosa Luxemburg

Christopher Hitchens
“Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immerse Jewishness in other and wider struggles. Indeed, the old canard about 'rootless cosmopolitanism' finds a perverse sort of endorsement in Jewish internationalism: the more emphatically somebody stresses that sort of rhetoric about the suffering of others, the more likely I would be to assume that the speaker was a Jew. Does this mean that I think there are Jewish 'characteristics'? Yes, I think it must mean that.”
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Africans must change their mind and actions.
The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.”
Lailah Gifty Akita

“african american women are easy. inferior.
africans are dirty. jungle people.
african americans are lazy. indolent.
african people are too black. ugly.
african americans think they are better than us.
africans think they are better us.


–– listen to the sound of us | we are breaking our mothers heart | the ancestors
weep at how much we look like the hate that came to eat us”
Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

Maya Angelou
“Africans find it hard to forgive us slavery, don't they?" He took my hand and said, "I thought you would have known that. My dear, they can't forgive us, and even more terrible, they can't forgive themselves. They're like the young here in this tragic country [Germany]. They will never forgive their parents for what they did to the Jews, and they can't forgive the Jews for surviving and being a living testament to human bestiality.”
Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Tigori Ernest Kakou
“You have to be blind or in bad faith not to recognize that France and most European states are more welcoming than other parts of the world. In any case, Africans are really badly placed to complain about racism in France when in their country of origin they are torn apart by tribalism. Tribalism and racism proceed from the same phenomenon of mistrust and rejection of the other. The crisis that Côte d'Ivoire is still going through has strong hints of tribal and ethnic struggle. In Cameroon, it is the Anglophones who want to secede. Abuses against foreign communities or mass expulsions of foreigners are regular in Africa, with the latest case being the miseries of foreigners in South Africa in 2017.”
Tigori Ernest Kakou

Tigori Ernest Kakou
“Understand that all absurdities only have free rein because the European is no longer able to react. For 70 years, it has been put into his head that his people have subjected Africa to the slave trade, colonization, the spoliation of natural resources and all the miseries of the world, and that as such they owe reparations to the African. The European, ashamed, must beat his culp! My book is a book of political combat, intended to free the European from these false accusations which imprison him in this inhibiting repentance. It is also for me to bring the African to reason, instead of abandonment in the comfort of the irresponsibility that has been instilled in him.”
Tigori Ernest Kakou, L'Afrique a desintoxiquer

“Richard Lynn was able to assemble eleven studies in his 1991 review of the literature. He estimated the median black African IQ to be 75, approximately 1.7 standard deviations below the U.S. overall population average, about 10 points lower than the current figure for American blacks.”
Richard J. Herrnstein, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Gift Gugu Mona
“Africans my heart bleeds for you!
When will you ever realize that your fight should never be against each other, but for each other?
When will you ever unite and construct a future so worthy of your future generations?
When will you ever stop pointing fingers at each other and start pointing each other towards the right direction?
Africans my heart bleeds heavily for you!
If you cannot stand together, you will be conquered forever.
In the end, your real enemy will stand on the mountain top and claim victory.”
Gift Gugu Mona

Barack Obama
“He was an erudite man and began our conversation with a history of slave religion, telling me about the Africans who, newly landed on hostile shoes, had sat circled around a fire mixing newfound myths with ancient rhythms, their songs becoming a vessel for those most radical of ideas – survival, and freedom, and hope.”
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“It is so sad that Africans, we only unite to do bad things. To break the law. To loot. To destroy someone's life or to bring others down. We never unite to fight our oppressors. We never unite to bring solutions. We never unite to support each others business and we never unite to eradicate poverty or problems we have in our society.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

Emile Banning
“Everything seems to indicate that a decisive hour has sounded in the history of the world, the hour when an almost virgin continent and ignored races will cooperate in the work of humanity.”
Emile Banning

Olawale Daniel
“To curb the ongoing racism against the black community, we all need to imagine "White Lives Matter" becoming a global trend where the blacks (mostly of African history) are ripping off the whites for no good reasons but racism. We are humans, we should treat ourselves like one.”
Olawale Daniel

Mitta Xinindlu
“Because our hair has been our CROWN since the beginning of time. But down the line we got manipulated into hating and removing our crown.”
Mitta Xinindlu

“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine.
We became so strong that it takes only one of our own to destroy us or to end us.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

Enock Maregesi
“Waafrika wa Afrika ndiyo wenye uchungu na Afrika si Wazungu au Waamerika. Maendeleo ya Afrika yataletwa na Waafrika wa Afrika.”
Enock Maregesi

“Africans must realize that it is time to be fruitful and multiply. ”
Kenneth Mwale

“As a Caribbean born, I understand the self as a
multi geometric entropic process always connected with the communal self. I do not seek history as a way to find points of origins, but to articulate historical locations in a traveling interconnected knowledge
system that provides solutions for my subjective migrant experience. In a deeper process, the encounter with these places of interceptions, the crossroads, could become turning points to return, do depart, to convey, and to arrive to the present. African Aesthetics still nurtures contemporary artistic practices in the Caribbean, as well as in Africana Americana Diaspora and the US/Latino Diaspora.

Writing the Decolonial Mariposa Ancestral Memory
CARIBBEAN INTRANSIT ARTS JOURNAL
VOL. 1 | ISSUE 4 | SPRING 2013”
Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo

Mitta Xinindlu
“MBEKI Pierre, born in 1905, Scotland.
MANDELA Giovanna Rosaria l, born in the 1800s, Italy.
ZUMA Andreas, born in 1750, Pologne.
TWALO July, born in 1850, USA.
MALEMA Jannis, born in 1750, Latvia.

These are Surnames of key people in Africa. But they are also a few examples of how people really received their Surnames in Africa ...through colonisation.”
Mitta Xinindlu

“You can’t host or show some black people good time without regretting, Because the same people you are showing good time. You are making sure they are enjoying themselves and are having time of their life. Are the very same people that will steal from you. Will sabotage you. Will destroy your property or items. Will try to find something that will destroy you or your career or bag. Sharing your success or space with a jealous person. Is the same as playing with fire. You can be burned anytime or every time.”
De philosopher DJ Kyos

Mitta Xinindlu
“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had to convince everyone (but mostly themselves) that my skin colour was black, which is obviously not. They wanted to lessen the value of my skin, my people, and my origins.”
Mitta Xinindlu

Mitta Xinindlu
“I am not Black, I am Cocoa.”
Mitta Xinindlu

“Don't just do anything; focus on the meaningful. Work is supposed to have meaning, not oblivion of meaning.

#dothemeaningful
What is truly meaningful for Africans? If not collective freedom, then what?”
Seun Ayilara

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