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African Writer Quotes

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Idowu Koyenikan
“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
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Idowu Koyenikan
“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
tags: africa, africa-house, africa-leaders, africa-people, africa-quotes, africa-s-predicament, africa-s-wealth, africa-will-shake, african, african-authors, african-believes, african-citizens, african-continent, african-cultural, african-culture, african-cup-of-nations, african-descent, african-development, african-development-bank, african-dictators, african-fiction, african-freethinker, african-great-healer, african-great-lakes, african-healer, african-juju, african-languages, african-leaders, african-literature, african-my-motherland, african-national-congress, african-people, african-proverb, african-quotes, african-safari, african-saying, african-socialism, african-story-telling, african-traditional-healer, african-union, african-woman, african-women, african-writer, africana, africana-studies, africans, china-achebe, desmond-tutu, kofi-annan, kwame-nkrumah, nelson-mandela, tribal, tribalism, tribe, tribes
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Malebo Sephodi
“Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them”
― Malebo Sephodi
tags: african-writer, boos, reading, woman-writer
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“People in power will lie to keep it. Honesty doesn't make you less human.”
― Henry Johnson Jr
tags: african-writer, ellen, liberature, liberia, power, president
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“We were all pawns easily discarded at the whims of monsters, some of whom were younger than me.”
― Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
tags: africa, african-american, african-writer, brima, chantale, lamin, liberia, liberian-writer, the-walk, war, wesley
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“I’m living according to the law of hand outs, I’m living under the law of charity,
I’m living under the law of being used.”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche
tags: african-art, african-literature, african-poetry, african-writer, definition-of-colour, definition-of-my-pigment, depth-of-colour, pain, sadness, spears-of-africa
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“Felt the pain of Edgar Allen Poe. Annabel Lee loved when novelty, cherished when she was a mere greenhorn. Loved her so affectionately,
like an Agape.
Described her love with the halo moon, took her to the kingdom by the sea. Enshrined your love for her with the stars, the sun remained envious.
Your love made angels green eyed, created a havoc in the heaven places. Annabel Lee you left him young And it killed him.”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche , Hannah Cherub: Hannah cherub
tags: african-writer, hannah-cherub, heart, love-poetry, music, passion, poetry, songs-of-love, soulful-poetry
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