CITATIONS/QUOTATIONS
| “The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.” W.E.B. DuBois “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” Steven Biko “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela “Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” John Henrik Clarke “Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.” Haile Selassie |
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism. Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.” Kwame Nkrumah “Whoever controls the images, controls the self-esteem, the self-respect and the self development" Leonard Jeffries “The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti... Cuba” Malcolm X “Find me an African that’s ashamed of Africa, find me an African who hates Africa, and I’ll show you an African who knows absolutely nothing about Africa. We say it all the time and it’s the truth: Any African who knows anything about Africa is so proud to be African that they would let anybody anywhere mistake them for anything other than African” Kwame Ture |
“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics,even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.” Booker T. Washington “There is no other for the Negro but through a free and independant Africa” Marcus Garvey “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” Bob Marley “Ainsi l’impérialisme, tel le chasseur de la préhistoire, tue d’abord spirituellement et culturellement l’être, avant de chercher à l’élimener physiquement. La négation de l’histoire et des réalisations intellectuelles des peuples africains noirs est le meurtre culturel, mental, qui a déjà précédé et préparé le génocide ici et là dans le monde.” Cheikh Anta Diop |