Literary Quotes

The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I have ever read. Classified as "magical realism," the book explores the spiritual belief of...

I had to go see Equalizer 2 with Denzel Washington. I have been a fan of Denzel since he played Steve Biko in Cry Freedom. I remember going to the Empire cinema in Leicester Square, London, to watch the film o...

The quotes featured below have been taken from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History. I have adapted the quotes to facilitate contemporary reading by modernizing the l...

"To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear." In his pheomenal book, Dreams From My Father (1995), President Oba...

"Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only lar...

"Out under the moon and stars, alone with his son...he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heaven and said softly, 'Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee.' (Behold - ...

"Perhaps even more important to them than freedom was the fact that no leaf fell, no word uttered or deed executed that did not echo eternally throughout the universe. Seeds, they were, that would flower in...

"The African family was like a city, vast and embracing to all of like mind, but full of perils for those who were not. Looking out on the gathering darkness, she remembered when she'd been part of that city an...

“Wuraola.’ Her grandfather’s voice was serious now. …Two hungry people should never make friends. If they do they eat each other up. It is the same with one person who is hungry and another who is full:...