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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements. ↗

— Zola Budd

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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

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It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. ↗

— Felix Okoye

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There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you. ↗

— L.V. Lewis

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If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. ↗

— Askhari Johnson Hodari

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For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

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I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. ↗

— Spike Lee

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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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