Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes
The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.
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And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
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If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
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I know who the leader is on the team, ... I ain't going to say who it is, but I know who it is. I know who the team feeds off. I know who the opposing team comes in knowing they have to defend to stop the Yankees.
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There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.
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When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
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I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
