Molefi Kete Asante quotes

“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

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“As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

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“What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

#Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

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“The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

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“Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.”
-- Molefi Kete Asante

#Faith Quotes #Blood Quotes

“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”

“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

Source : Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”

“Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.”

“Ladies: Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause.”

“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.”

“Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.