Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

— Ali A. Mazrui

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

America is a young dumb country, and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big teeth that bite and hurt. And we take care of America. We hold America to our bosom; we feed America, we make love to America. There wouldn't be an America if it wasn't for black people. So you have some dedicated black Americans who will die a million deaths to save America. And this is home for us. We don't know really about Africa. We talk it in a romantic sense, but America is it. And so, America is always going to be okay as long as black people don't totally lose their mind, because we'll pick up the pieces and turn it into a new dance.

— Abiodun Oyewole

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

— Chinua Achebe

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

— Henning Mankell

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

— Adam J. Banks

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana