Mo Ibrahim Quotes

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

Up you mighty race!

I have aimed at a higher object than mere amusement, desiring so to picture the Irish character, as to make it more justly appreciated, more rightly estimated, and more respected in England.

I will never desert the cause of the Africans injured by slavery; I will not disappoint you.

The State is the name by which we call the great human conspiracy against hunger and cold, against loneliness and ignorance; the State is the foster-mother and warden of the arts, of love, of comradeship, of all that redeems from despair that strange adventure which we call human life.

Black power means Black dignity

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.

The last thing I want to do with my platform is bash another young black man who is getting money.

Everyone who passes through 'Drag Race,' and especially the people who are able to have really big careers after the show, has a responsibility to the queer community to do a good job of representing queer people across the board to be kind and loving.

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

I think from a personal standpoint, maybe I appreciate a little more that there are two sides to every story, and the way that the U.S. is sometimes is viewed outside of the U.S. can be pretty tough, depending on what the U.S.'s actions are.

Latin America is not that different from the rest of the world. Some of us have been trying to get from the edges into the centre, but we're very few. The world is still very resistant to understanding the diversity of human beings.

I was trained within a black radical tradition that encouraged struggle within our own movements because it sharpens collective analysis - bringing us closer to the tools we need to achieve liberation.

I vowed to never be on camera down-talking another black man.

While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.