Civilization Quote by John Henrik Clarke

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose…

— James Henry Breasted

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

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many…

— 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…

— Henry Louis Gates

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

— Hasso Plattner

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the…

— Donald Johanson

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

— John Henrik Clarke

“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

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

— Darryl Pinckney

Africa has a time-honored and brilliant civilization.

— Li Keqiang

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

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans…

— Haile Selassie