I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. Learn more about working with Thought Catalog. Where there is no vision, there is no hope. I was supposed to sit there and say, ‘Oh, thank you Mr. White Man for giving me a job.’ God made me human and equal. All Rights Reserved, This Haitian explorer and entrepreneur is the founder and father of Chicago, How the King of Buganda massacred 45 Ugandan Christian martyrs in 1886, 10 timeless quotes that pay homage to black beauty, The story behind the only African country formed by merger of two states, Top 7 African songs to woo your love this Valentine, [Poetic Attack] Zimbabwean self-love poet Billy Chapata’s thoughts on love and healing, 10 African proverbs to help you live your best life this New Year, 5 Swahili Proverbs That Sum Up the Current Political Scene in Africa. If you have found a person who looks at you this way, well, you are truly lucky. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. October 12, 2014. Blacks have no rights – in fact they were three – fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more voting rights. We need to live the best that’s in us. So that’s African Americans.

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), one of Africa’s and Nigeria’s most celebrated sons said it best, “Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.” Referring specifically to Igbo culture, and indeed in many Nigerian cultures, palm oil is used to make the meal sweeter. Don’t be so in love that you can’t tell when it’s raining. To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time. – Sierra Leone, 3. You're not obligated to win. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Explore 1000s of thoughtful African American quotes on Love Expands.

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Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994. If you marry a monkey for its wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Sign up for the Thought Catalog Weekly and get the best stories from the week to your inbox every Friday. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. It’s your life… why not fill it with as much joy as possible? The quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. Cameroon, 8. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.

Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. You really can change the world if you care enough. To love someone who does not love you is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.

Nigeria, 24. – Malagasy, 10. Hate is too great a burden to bear. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. If you do not travel, you will marry your own sister. Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence. Some are straightforward. “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group, Maya Angelou (2011). Madagascar, 25. A letter from the heart can be read on the face.

5. He who loves you, loves you with your dirt.

– Congo, 15. His nationality, his race, his skin color, his religion, all this does not matter!

If you can't change it, change your attitude. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. A good wife is easy to find, but suitable in-laws are rare. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. "50 years after receiving Nobel Prize, do Martin Luther King's peace prophecies still resonate? If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. Submit, February 14, 2018 at 09:04 am | Lifestyle, Bridget Boakye is a writer, activist, and entrepreneur based in Accra, Ghana. 60 Black Women Quotes On Self-Love, Life, and Success 1. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” Côte d’Ivoire, 12. If you marry a monkey for his wealth, the money goes and the monkey remains as is. – Egypt, 12.

He who loves, love you with your dirt. Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. Submit your writing to be published on Thought Catalog. And as every African child knows, the latter were not intended to be, and will have to be learned through experience, and over a lifetime. If a woman doesn’t love you, she calls you “brother.” – Côte d’Ivoire. Reblogged this on The journey: Journalism between tomorrow and yesterday and commented: Explore 1000s of thoughtful African American Quotes. Nigeria, 3. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. In the same way, our conversations are enriched by the proverbs we use. It never did and it never will. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. – Mozambique, 4. Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.