Complexes Quote by Amiri Baraka

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the…

— John Henrik Clarke

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

— Samuel George Morton

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man…

— Malcolm X

Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true…

— Anonymous

I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything.

— Fela Kuti

I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

— Philip Freelon

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

— John Henrik Clarke

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no…

— Haile Selassie

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black…

— Henry Louis Gates

For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white;…

— Kwame Nkrumah

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

— Djimon Hounsou