For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
The African because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as natures most efficacious remedy for insomnia though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Africa help me to go home carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes….
It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at one?s self through the eyes of others…. One feels his two-ness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others…. One ever feels his twoness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
And when this happens when we allow freedom to ring when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual Free at last free at last. Thank God Almighty we are free at last.
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates Lincoln did not hesitate to dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality: I will say then that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes nor of qualifying them to hold office nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
People in the United States still have a Tarzan movie view of Africa. Thats because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals … We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographers paradise a hunters Valhalla an escapists Utopia. It is what you will and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people as to myself it is just home. It is all these things but one thing it is never dull.
I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.
Ive always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bankexplaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The wind of change is blowing through this content Africa.
There is always something new out of Africa.
The Dark Continent Africa.
For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
The African because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
Softly softly catchee monkey is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as natures most efficacious remedy for insomnia though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).
A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
Africa help me to go home carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes….
It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at one?s self through the eyes of others…. One feels his two-ness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others…. One ever feels his twoness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had nothing to live on but food and water.
Quick sunrise come! Sunrise out of Africa Quick come!
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
And when this happens when we allow freedom to ring when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet from every state and every city we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children black men and white men Jews and Gentiles Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual Free at last free at last. Thank God Almighty we are free at last.
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates Lincoln did not hesitate to dispel the notion that he was a champion of racial equality: I will say then that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes nor of qualifying them to hold office nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
People in the United States still have a Tarzan movie view of Africa. Thats because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals … We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographers paradise a hunters Valhalla an escapists Utopia. It is what you will and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people as to myself it is just home. It is all these things but one thing it is never dull.
I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.
In my music my plays my films I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
Ive always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bankexplaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]
He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.