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African Diaspora Quotes

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"We should be the power base for African people throughout the world."
"The Haitian Revolution was the greatest slave uprising, not just for African diasporic history but world history."
"The success of the Haitian Revolution shook the Americas to its core and was a defining moment in the history of the African Diaspora."
"They have us coming out of Africa as slaves and that's where they start our history."
"Shout out to my African brothers and sisters my Caribbean brothers and sisters."
"I think it's about time that the African Community come together and make our voices heard about this situation."
"The Black Panther is a film about identity first and foremost, exclusively concerned with the modern black identity from the Diaspora in the US to connections in Africa."
"More black Africans have come to the United States voluntarily as immigrants than were came here as slaves."
"Africans belong to Africa. You can spend 20, 30 years in Europe, you'll never be a European."
"There were black people here for thousands of years."
"I think that we have better language about Blackness I think we have better exposure to our African cousins and so we it's not necessarily we don't need to fill in the gaps with this holiday that we invented in the same way..."
"As we move through time and space, how have African people passed on knowledge, experiences, memories of their moment in time?"
"We're essentially an African people wherever we live on this earth."
"If Africa is the export of the Abrahamic Traditions—Christianity, Islam, and Judaism—and it is, then what distinguishes white Christian nationalism from the ways of knowing that left Africa and that the Romans adopted?"
"A lot of the West Africans and black people are descendants from Bani Israel."
"South Africa is the place that the African diaspora should come and visit."
"This area is called Negroland which says a lot, but if we look deeper, we can see where they took the slaves from right on the slave coast which was labeled, what? Yes, you see it, Kingdom of Judah."
"We're trying to free over close to 3 billion people we have on the continents scattered around the world."
"The world owes a debt to the Africans of Asia."
"Why have black Africans failed to build strong systems?"
"We must understand the global presence of African people."
"Arm yourself with knowledge bang on net wicked ass Beach daily liberation through Africa education confrontation."
"The African produced something they have been consistently producing without the world noticing it: Multi geniuses."
"It's about time for us to unite, both Africans on the continent and Africans living in the diaspora."
"There's a myth that Africans on the continent don't like Africans in the diaspora."
"The relationship between blacks from Africa and African-Americans has been long and continuous"
"It's time for the diaspora sons and daughters of Africa to arise and take their place and see how it can contribute to the building of our nations."
"What does it mean to be Jamaican? I had never understood that because I was always seeking to be African."
"The religions of the African Diaspora are not simply survivals of a primordial past but they're a response to circumstances."
"Music from Saharan Cell Phones is one of the landmark releases of the Sahel Sounds label out of Portland, Oregon."
"This is vital to our survival as a people and not just our survival but to our enhancement as a people and the rebuilding of a strong African society, strong African people all over the world."
"I honestly believe that one of the reasons why there are black folk who consider themselves Israelites today is because of the ubiquity of the Christian tradition."
"We are in the middle of an African diaspora travel renaissance."
"Ghana dubbed 2019 the year of return as the country welcomed over one million Africans in the diaspora."
"We are all Africans, right? Whether you're an African in America, whether you're an African in Brazil, whether you're African in the Caribbean."
"Whenever we have had an African leadership anywhere, that African leadership has accomplished amazing things."
"The origins of the Sri Lankan Kaffirs can be traced back to the 16th century when Portuguese colonialists brought African slaves to the island."
"Travel Noir is a digital media company serving Millennials of the African diaspora who are seeking a better, more cultured life through international travel."
"Welcome back to the Black Table on the Black Star Network. This is our hour, our weekly hour devoted to exploring ideas and subjects of special importance to people of African descent and others fighting to build a better society."
"We are right here on the tip of what's going on in the African Diaspora community not just here in the United States but all around the world."
"They begin to open the minds of a new generation and they don't get bombarded and indoctrinated with negativity; they're actually able to see positivity and inspiring images and messages about the African diaspora."
"The forced removal of up to 25 million people from the continent obviously had a major effect on the growth of the population of Africa."
"The slave trade is sometimes called the Maafa by African and African American scholars, meaning Holocaust or great disaster in Swahili."
"We are the children of the Maafa. I am the descendant of those who came on slave ships."
"If I should die in prison in Atlanta, my work shall not only just begin, but I shall live, in the physical or the spiritual, to see the day of Africa's glory."
"No matter where you come from, as long as you're a black man, you're African."
"How can you get angry when you, the most powerful group of Africans in the world, have not secured your image, your interest, and your history in your homeland?"
"Make in Africa home again, one family at a time."
"The African Heritage pyramid is based on the traditional diets of the African diaspora."
"I was always looking for our people, our people when I say our people, I mean the African brothers and sisters."
"We need to unite as an African people, not just as Hebrew Israelites and Kemites."
"...African and diasporic thought and Imagination is saturated with the dream of a colorblind future..."
"We have built more independent institutions than any African people living outside of Africa."
"The majority of black people that live here are African and escaping either war-torn countries or basically looking for a life of better opportunity."