Race

“For your own sakes, never appear ashamed that your father was a kaffir (Black man), and that you inherited African blood. It is every bit as good as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”

“I suppose I must call myself a slave for I am the colour of those of whom you made slaves.”

“In Paris…no one regards me curiously. I am simply “M. Tanner, an American artist.””

“A nation is not only a matter of race or the color of skin.”

“I think the history of race is deeply embedded in the DNA of our country.”

“I am the candidate of the people of America.”

“There is a deep lesson for the world in the black races’ capacity to forgive.”

“Il ne manque aux nègres qu’un chef assez courageux, pour les conduire à la vengeance & au carnage.”

““In heaven there is no color.””

“I think success has to do with your attitude towards life, your ability to communicate with people of all races, and to be able to live in your own skin.”

“I see that no one else of our race has done it; perhaps I may be pardoned for assuming so great a task.”

“For your own sakes never appear ashamed that your father was a “Kaffir” and that you inherit some African blood. It is every whit as good and as pure as that which flows in the veins of my fairer brethren.”

“Only the Black Woman can say “when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.””

“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.”

“White leadership is therefore a myth and a heritage of impoverishment.”

“The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.”

“O homem que pretendíamos homenagear — apesar de ser de cor preta — é digno dessa e das maiores honrarias.”

“I call African philosophy a set of texts: the set, precisely, of texts written by Africans and described by their authors themselves as ‘philosophical’.”