Black Quote by Darryl Pinckney

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their…

— John Henrik Clarke

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science…

— Manisha Sinha

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new,…

— John Henrik Clarke

In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it…

— Jared Diamond

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

— Jamaica Kincaid

“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans emerged and began to extend themselves into the broader world of Africa and Asia during…

— J.A. Rogers

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

— Fela Kuti

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

One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.

— Norman Davies

“Dear Earth-dweller: Please use your BRAIN! As anyone KNOWS in this SCIENTIFIC age, the origin of the races is now WELL UNDERSTOOD! Africans traveled…

— Greg Egan

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad…

— Chinua Achebe

“The moment that the topic of the pre-European African past is raised, many individuals are concerned for various reasons to know about the existence…

— Walter Rodney