Cheikh Anta Diop Quotes

• Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Learning, Past, Lessons

  Cheikh Anta Diop, E. Curtis Alexander, Mwalimu Imara Mwadilifu (1984). “Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts”, Eca Assoc

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• Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Air, Egypt, Civilization

  Cheikh Anta Diop (1989). “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality”, p.12, Chicago Review Press

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• Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  United States, States, Integration

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• The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was no longer anyone with the noble determination to get to know the great men of the world, or if there were some individuals consumed with this curiosity, they were few in number. From then on, there remained only vulgar minds given over to hatred, envy and discord, who took an interest only in things which did not concern them, gossip, slander, calumny of one's neighbors, all those things which are the source of the worst of our troubles.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Determination, Past, Men

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• European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Glasses, Balls, Language

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• Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Humanity, Progress, Moral

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• In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  Practice, Doubt, Skins

  Cheikh Anta Diop, E. Curtis Alexander, Mwalimu Imara Mwadilifu (1984). “Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts”, Eca Assoc

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