African American Authors Quotes

Don`t turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Light is life and always wins.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Sow the right words! Think the good thought.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Life is beautiful if you take the best option.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Move forward for forward is progress but circles are movement.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Have the best course for all your actions.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Shine forth your light before all beings.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Don`t descend to the lowest ebb.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Eschew evil and it`s machinations.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Relish what is good and expedient.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

I really want to call you to me in a thunderbolt so I can smack you. We’re not even married yet and I want to strangle you with my bare hands. That doesn’t bode well for your life expectancy, Assefa, or my chance of staying out of prison on a homicide charge

~ N.d. Jones

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.

~ N.d. Jones

Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

~ N.d. Jones

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard...

~ N.d. Jones

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

~ Abiola Abrams

Notwithstanding the memories of slavery, and in the face poverty, ignorance, terrorism, and subjugation still deeply woven into their lives, the embittered past of blacks was taken onto a much higher plane of intellectual and artistic consideration during the Renaissance.

~ Clement Alexander Price

Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens.Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

~ L.v. Lewis

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

~ Carter G. Woodson

When their voices didn't reach my ears,I rebelled against my own skin too young to realize that without their stories I would starve.

~ Kiana Davis

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South to reply that their social condition is the main cause of prejudice. They both act as reciprocal cause and effect, and a change in neither alone will bring the desired effect. Both must change, or neither can improve to any great extent.(p.88)....Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

~ Raynetta Manees

She was turned on by him— his scent, his smile; he was the manifestation of seduction. Under normal circumstances, she'd be tempted, but might have had enough willpower to resist him. These weren't normal circumstances, however. Tonight, she was certain she wanted him in her bedroom.

~ Norian F. Love

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.

~ George Dawson

On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even movies. This is what America thinks of black people, so-called black president and all, who has been largely silent on this subject...we'll even celebrate Leprechauns, Easter Bunnies, and Secretary's Day before we acknowledge our history.

~ Brandi L. Bates

Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before they get to know me.What they do not know isThe pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.So you think I am nothing?Don’t worry about what I am now,For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.I will raise my head high wherever I goBecause of my African pride,And nobody will take that away from me.

~ Idowu Koyenikan