#africa

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. ↗

— Barack Obama

#colonialism #history #dreams

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs ↗

— Les Brown

#motivantional #dreams

New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood. Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supple vines. Now the ancient age returns, unity is restored, The recociliation of the Lion and Bull and Tree Idea links to action, the ear to the heart, sign to meaning. See your rivers stirring with musk alligators And sea cows with mirage eyes. No need to invent the Sirens. Just open your eyes to the April rainbow And your eyes, especially your ears, to God Who in one burst of saxophone laughter Created heaven and earth in six days, And on the seventh slept a deep Negro sleep. ↗

— Léopold Sédar Senghor

#new-york-city #poetry #age

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

In the pursuit of greater equality in our education system, from K to PhD, technology access, print literacies, and verbal skill all collide as requirements for even basic participation in an information-based, technology-dependent economy and society. ↗

— Adam J. Banks

#composition #digital #dj #griot #multimedia

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America ↗

— Paul Robeson

#america #equal-rights #fighting #injustice #race

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. ↗

— Oliver Tambo

#black #black and white #conditions #equals #live

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#fan #huge #i #like #music

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#action movie #african-american #bringing #cat #coming

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#black #desperate #experts #forced #geneva