Molefi Kete Asante Quotes

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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

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

Molefi Kete Asante

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Molefi Kete Asante

Afrocentricity is the belief in the centrality of Africans in postmodern history. It is our history our mythology our creative motif and our ethos exemplifying our collective will.

Molefi Kete Asante

It is not unity that we must seek but collective consciousness. In Afrocentricity there is a remarkable surge of consciousness that transcends the current emphasis on unity; this is the next act in our drama.... Consciousness precedes unity.

Molefi Kete Asante

Molefi Kete Asante

Molefi Kete Asante

Born: August 14, 1942 (age 82)

Bio: Molefi Kete Asante is an African-American professor. He is a leading figure in the fields of African-American studies, African studies and communication studies.

Known for:

Afrocentricity, the theory of social change (1980)
The Afrocentric Idea (1987)
An Afrocentric Manifesto (2007)
100 Greatest African Americans (2002)

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