African Quote by Malachi Kirby

I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein…

— Burning Spear

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk…

— Saul Williams

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

— Fatou Bensouda

Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country the…

— Nicky Oppenheimer

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who…

— John Henrik Clarke

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they…

— Hugh Masekela

Never be shamed of being Afrikan

— Thomas Sankara