Quote by Aylmer Von Fleischer

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the…

— Ibn Khaldun

“The true Moors (Blacks) were later called blackamoors to distinguish them from the lightcomplexioned inhabitants of North Africa. The ancestors of the ‘true Moors’…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

“who were the Moors? The answer is very easy. The original Moors, like the original Egyptians, were Black Africans.”

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

— John Henrik Clarke

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses…

— Richard Engel

“the Nabataeans were real Arabs .. there is substantial agreement of Biblical Aramaic with Nabataean, both in words and construction.”

— John Courtenay James

“But racism is most outrageously to the fore in ‘Ashraf and Anjab’, in which the sadistically villainous Anjab is described by Harun al-Rashid as…

— Malcolm C. Lyons

“Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous mass of…

— Albert Camus

“Among Arabs he was a Berber, among Frenchmen an Arab, among his own a nothing, as I'd been a Jew among Arabs, an Egyptian…

— André Aciman

“The historian, Toynbee, has said: “The Primitive Arabs who were the ruling element of the Umayyad Caliphate called themselves ‘the swarthy people’ with a…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

“The likeness of Ethiopic to Arabic suggests an original tribal affinity.”

— James John Courtenay

“In the middle Ages, Berber was written in the Maghribi style of the Arabic script, in what is to all appearances a standardized orthography.…

— Nico Van Den Boogert