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Africans Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
- 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 of…
- No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco…
- When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and…
- My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and…
- There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans…
More Africans Quotes
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono
- I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved… — Bono
- It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Bono
- We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
- Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or… — John Henrik Clarke
- The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old… — John Henrik Clarke
- When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not… — John Henrik Clarke
- Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party. — Unknown Author
- By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening,… — Brad Pitt
- Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in… — James Madison