African Quote by Madison Smartt Bell

Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

— Tariq Ali

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

— Ezola B. Foster

“From the flourishing trade center of Zanzibar, whose leading trade items were ivory and African slaves, the Arabs began to conquer parts of coastal…

— Thomas Sowell

“There were African slaves in China from at least the seventh century CE, and, Wolf reports, “by 1119 most of the wealthy people of…

— David Christian

“By the time the slave trade ended, the Caribbean had taken an estimated 50 percent of the roughly fifteen million African slaves transported to…

— Christopher Lascelles

“Arabs invaded northern Africa in the seventh century, sending black African slaves to Asia and Arab countries. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, which…

— Perry Stone

“switched to slaves. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The thing people have to remember is there's nothing natural about racism as it exists in America. I mean, we know this historically. We…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“From the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, about 10 million African slaves were imported to America. About 70 per cent of them worked on…

— Yuval Noah Harari

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a…

— Madison Smartt Bell

I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my…

— Madison Smartt Bell

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of…

— Madison Smartt Bell