Belong Quote by Rege-Jean Page

The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black. Whether you…

— Thabo Mbeki

Zimbabweans are always Africans but Africans are not always Zimbabweans. Honour thy father and thy mother for though they have other children to bank…

— Jaison Ndlovu

Being a white southern African who saw the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, the sense of being an outsider was absolutely instilled in my…

— Alexandra Fuller

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid…

— Teresa Heinz

Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an…

— Darryl Pinckney

Born in Sub-Sahara Africa, I was born into my black identity because no other identity existed where I lived. However, upon coming to the…

— Michaela DePrince

It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

— Roselee Goldberg

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa.…

— Rachel Holmes

I was born in the Eighties, and at that time the idea of having a mixed-race child wasn't welcome. Then I was also an…

— Masaba Gupta

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm…

— Estelle

Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less…

— Kandyse McClure

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic…

— Mo Ibrahim