Africanism Quotes

“Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und mächtig, nicht geschichtslos sondern geschichtlich, nicht verdammt, sondern unschuldig, nicht ein blinder Zufall der Evolution, sondern fortschrittliche Erfüllung eines Schicksal.”
― Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

“Autonomy, newness, difference, authority, absolute power: these are the major themes and concerns of American literature, and each one is made possible, shaped, and activated by a complex awareness and use of a constituted Africanism that, deployed as rawness and savagery, provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of that quintessential American identity.”
― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ?
and the correct answer is Not really.”
― Auliq a

“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa mtetezi wa uafrika. Kwa sababu yake tunajua sisi ni nani.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had to convince everyone (but mostly themselves) that my skin colour was black, which is obviously not. They wanted to lessen the value of my skin, my people, and my origins.”
― Mitta Xinindlu