Moleft Kete Asante Quotes

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

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

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

We all live in a society where someone who lives right across hasn't eaten and you don't know it or you are having problems where you are close to suicide and no one knows; everyone is going about their duty and thinking everything is fine. It's a dual world we live in and there is so much going on and yet it is not so obvious because we all live in our individual worlds. ~ Juliet Asante

What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film. ~ Juliet Asante

Tansi began to tell her, "Two Asante men went out into the forest one day. They were weavers by trade, and they had gone out to hunt for meat. When they got to the forest to collect their traps, they were met by Anansi, the mischievous spider. He was spinning a magnificent web. They watched him, studied him, and soon realised that a spider's web is a unique and beautiful thing, and that a spider's technique is flawless. They went home and decided to weave cloth the way Anansi weaves his web. From that, kente was born. ~ Yaa Gyasi

Don't forget that we come into this life with out anything and with out anything we are going to leave, nothing is more valuable than human life!
Mos harroni se kemi ardhur ne kete jete pa asnjegje, e do te shkojme pa asnjegje! Asgje nuk eshte me e kushtushme se Jeta e njeriut ! ~ Zybejta "Beta" Metani' Marashi

until it reached an Asante village. There, it disappeared, becoming one with the night. Effia's father, Cobbe Otcher, left his first wife, Baaba, with the new baby so that he might survey the damage to his yams, that most precious crop known far and wide to sustain families. Cobbe had lost seven yams, and he felt each loss ~ Yaa Gyasi

I am the mountain and the sculptor, losing myself, finding myself, revealing what was there all along. ~ M.K. Asante

When you make an observation, you have an obligation. ~ M. K. Asante

I write-down to speak-up. ~ M.K. Asante Jr.

Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit. ~ Juliet Asante

Malo has the best chance to make it, not because he is exempt from mischief and even mayhem but because he is a listener and observer. ~ M.K. Asante

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries. ~ Juliet Asante

Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to. ~ M. K. Asante