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title: "2 Adopting Quotes By Kola Boof"
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> [I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-m-not-at-all-against-white-people-adopting-black-children-because/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

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> [ Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees \[adopting by white family\] mean. It's not something that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/because-i-was-in-psychiatric-treatment-for-most-of-my-childhood-and/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

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## Other authors on Adopting

## More by Kola Boof

> [I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-m-not-at-all-against-white-people-adopting-black-children-because/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/what-makes-me-angry-is-that-it-wasn-t-me-who-revealed-that-i-had-been/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-was-adopted-my-black-americans-i-feel-that-i-m-a-hybrid-when-i-m/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-m-an-african-woman-i-suppose-these-thoughts-torture-me-more-than/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/race-means-family-and-all-black-people-whether-they-like-it-or-not/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/though-the-white-man-is-a-kind-of-satan-and-though-the-black-man-is/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-wasn-t-allowed-to-use-people-s-real-names-such-as-my-siblings-and/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-met-rich-men-and-they-became-my-boyfriends-when-i-was-a-kept-woman/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-loved-1930-s-women-s-pictures-films-by-josef-von-sternberg-or/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [“My look, mind you, is not chocolate like Lauryn Hill, Whoopi Goldberg, or Naomi Campbell - it is pitch black and shimmering like the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/my-look-mind-you-is-not-chocolate-like-lauryn-hill-whoopi-goldberg-or/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/the-black-woman-is-the-most-unprotected-unloved-woman-on-earth-she-is/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/while-i-love-mohammed-and-jesus-christ-i-reject-all-men-s-religions/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-was-born-to-an-arab-father-and-i-was-born-islamic/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/men-always-liked-me-because-i-was-very-damaged-and-unpredictable-my/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

> [ I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama \[Bin Laden\]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kola-boof/i-never-wanted-anyone-to-know-about-me-and-osama-bin-laden-i-wanted/)

[Kola Boof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kola-boof/)

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