Air Quote by Alice Walker

“Nigger, you sure ought to be glad it was us you talked to that way. You’re a lucky bastard, ’cause if you’d said that…

— Richard Wright

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the…

— Doris Lessing

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in…

— Doris Lessing

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some guy in a dashiki said,…

— Ed O'Neill

When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of…

— Richard Pryor

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa…

— Henry Morton Stanley

“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,…

— W. Kamau Bell

“We don't want you here living with us. You are white, and we do not trust you. You must take your family and go."…

— Lawrence Anthony

“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a…

— Bessie Head

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

“Lizzie and I arrived in the polluted heat of a London summer. We stood frozen at street corners as a blur of pedestrians burst…

— Aidan Hartley

Now many things are beginning to come out and it was truly a reality to me when I went to Africa, to Guinea. The…

— Fannie Lou Hamer