Dark Quote by John Henrik Clarke

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

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

I remember, growing up, it wasn't sexy to be African. We got called names.

— Yvonne Orji

“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

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original'…

— Sister Souljah

“The Egyptians always seem to have had some idea that they were connected racially with the inhabitants of the Land of Punt or Puenet,…

— Leonard William King

“Roman documents also indicated the presence of several Blacks among the Berbers known as Gaetuli and Asphodelodes. It is therefore clear that the word…

— Aylmer Von Fleischer

Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into…

— Frantz Fanon

“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz