Molefi Kete Asante Quotes

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.

The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human civilization.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

Certainly the multicultural activists in the Labour party and the universities wanted to destroy the old white Anglo-Saxon education system as they saw it, and produce something completely different - with no conception of what that completely different thing would be, of course.

We need more diversity - we need more African-Americans on screen, Latinos, Asians, different religions. We have to be better about reflecting what our world looks like.

Going to an interracial high school shaped my understanding of social justice and racial inequality.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

Make black history every day, I don't need a month

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

We are a multicultural society in a continuous state of abrasion.

You are responsible for the participation of all racial groups in FHA programs.

I've grown up in a very diverse background.