Positive African Quotes & Sayings

Then there's the woman in my arms. She's my future ... my whole world ... my lover ... my wife ... my BFF. — Jewel E. Ann

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. — Omari Hardwick

Robert Farris Thompson, America's most prominent historian of African art, says that funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning "positive sweat" of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working. One's mojo, which has to be "working" to attract a lover, is Ki-Kongo for "soul." Boogie comes from mbugi, meaning "devilishly good." And both jazz and jism likely derive from dinza, the Ki-Kongo word for "to ejaculate. — Christopher Ryan

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. — Joan Baez

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz. — Wynton Marsalis

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand. — Old Tom Morris

YOU ARE NOT A FINISHED WORK OF ART
YOU ARE A COMMISSIONED WORK IN PROGRESS
HANGING IN A GALLERY UNDER CONSTRUCTION!


KEEP PUSHING! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

A MAN ON A CANE STILL STANDS ON HIS OWN TWO FEET! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. — Tracey Ullman

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already believes in peace and justice even when everybody does not believe in God. — Stanley Hauerwas

I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America. — Raven-Symone

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man. — Taye Diggs

Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living. — Peter Abrahams

Those things in life that matter will give you pain as you learn to understand life. — Keorapetse Kgositsile

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. — Richard Attias

All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later. — Terence McKenna

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. — Mos Def

If a person is found dead here, a postmorten will always reveal whether he has spent less than three weeks in the city. That is the length of time it takes this pollution to invade the body, after which it is there forever. — Liv Ullmann

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative. — Curtis Granderson

I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the center of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away. — Brother Andrew

My wolf-sharpened sense of smell caught the scent of ice-cream cones, of asphalt, of churning ocean, of swirling beer, of first kisses and last kisses. — Maggie Stiefvater

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BEING IN LOVE IS ALWAYS A
COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to that place of success in a positive light. We should take a stance and stand for something and use that platform for positivity. — Misty Copeland