N Mari

“¿Qué buscas?
preguntó.
No sabría decirlo
susurré:
el perdón
la mandala
ese perdón que es mío
y no puedo otorgarme
que camina conmigo
y no viene de fuera
ese perdón arisco
que retumba en mis sienes
que me oprime
y hace brotar las lágrimas
que lavan.”
― Claribel Alegría

“Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“In the Lake Debo region (in Mali, on the Niger), pyramids are also found, and these were dubbed “mounds,” as might be expected. This is the usual procedure in the attempt to disparage African values. In contrast, there is the reverse procedure consisting of describing a clay tumulus—a real mound—in Mesopotamia, as the most perfect temple that the human mind can imagine. It goes without saying that such reconstructions are generally mere wishful thinking.”
― Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

“If the African anthropologist made a point of examining European races “under the magnifying glass,” he would be able to multiply them ad infinitum by grouping physiognomies into races and subraces as artificially as his European counterpart does with regard to Africa. He would, in turn, succeed in dissolving collective European reality into a fog of insignificant facts.”
― Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality