Chris Tucker Quotes

I am proud to be an African.

I am part of the pan-African diaspora.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American.

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

Wakanda, in short, is the Africa of black dreams.

I'm trying to have Wakanda represent all of Africa.

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.

Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

Obviously I descend from Africa.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.

None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan.