{"quotes":[{"text":"I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.","author":"Diriye Osman","tags":["african-literature","gay-pride","lgbt","lgbt-literature"],"id":18078,"author_id":"Diriye+Osman"},{"text":"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.","author":"Clement Alexander Price","tags":["african-american-artists","african-american-","african-american-music","african-literature","creative-genius","demograghic-shifts","harlem-renaissance","harlem-renaissance-historians","intellectuals","moral-victories","oppression","poverty","slavery","terrorism"],"id":34398,"author_id":"Clement+Alexander+Price"},{"text":"You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela","tribal","tribalism","tribe","tribes"],"id":79987,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"I know of no evil that ever existed, nor can imagine any evil to exist, worse than the tearing of seventy or eighty thousand persons every year from their own land.","author":"William Pitt the Younger","tags":["africa","african-literature","slavery","speech"],"id":141179,"author_id":"William+Pitt+the+Younger"},{"text":"The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.","author":"Akilnathan Logeswaran","tags":["africa","african","african-","african-literature","continent","continent-of-africa","culture","diversity","empowerment","history","literature","people","roots","stories","stories-dreams","stories-life","stories-of-people"],"id":149480,"author_id":"Akilnathan+Logeswaran"},{"text":"In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.","author":"Chinua Achebe","tags":["african-","african-literature","nigeria","politics"],"id":151942,"author_id":"Chinua+Achebe"},{"text":"The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines.","author":"Sahndra Fon Dufe","tags":["activist","african-","african-literature","cameroonian-","strong-african-women","strong-african-women-under-30"],"id":160303,"author_id":"Sahndra+Fon+Dufe"},{"text":"A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.","author":"Sahndra Fon Dufe","tags":["african-actress","african-","african-literature","cameroon","education","feminist","women-education","women-s-rights"],"id":165638,"author_id":"Sahndra+Fon+Dufe"},{"text":"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.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["africa","africa-herbalist","africa-house","africa-leaders","africa-people","africa","africa-s-predicament","africa-s-wealth","africa-will-shake","african","african-american","african-american-","african-americans","african-","african-believes","african-citizens","african-continent","african-cultural","african-culture","african-cup-of-nations","african-descent","african-development","african-development-bank","african-dictators","african-fiction","african-freethinker","african-great-healer","african-great-lakes","african-healer","african-juju","african-languages","african-leaders","african-literature","african-my-motherland","african-national-congress","african-people","african-proverb","african","african-safari","african-saying","african-socialism","african-story-telling","african-traditional-healer","african-union","african-voodoo","african-woman","african-women","african-writer","africana","africana-studies","africans","black-america","black-americans","black-book-","black-girl","black-girls-rock","black-history","black-history-month","black-in-america","black-intellectuals","black-is-beautiful","black-literary-classics","black-literature","black-lives-matter","black-queen","black-woman","black-women","blackness","china-achebe","desmond-tutu","kofi-annan","kwame-nkrumah","nelson-mandela"],"id":178507,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"The God of Imagination lived in fairytales. And the best fairytales made you fall in love. It was while flicking through 'Sleeping Beauty' that I met my first love, Ivar. He was a six-year-old bello ragazzo with blond hair and eyebrows. He had bomb-blue eyes and his two front teeth were missing.The road to Happily Ever After, however, was paved with political barbed wire. Three things stood in my way.1. The object of my affection didn't know he was the object of my affection.2. The object of my affection preferred Action Man to Princess Aurora.3. The object of my affection was a boy and I wasn't allowed to love a boy.","author":"Diriye Osman","tags":["african-literature","coming-of-age","fairytales","first-love","lgbt"],"id":181844,"author_id":"Diriye+Osman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}