Kwame Quotes
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This poet is a griot in search of a village.
— Kwame Dawes
Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike. — Kwame Alexander
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike. — Kwame Alexander
If you draft me, you'll never regret it.
— Kwame Brown
I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
If someone hates you, they won't ask you for things.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
A value is like a fax machine: it's not much use if you're the only one who has one.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
— Kwame Nkrumah
tricks are for kids,
— Kwame Alexander
Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!
— Kwame Nkrumah
The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
(And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
— Kwame Nkrumah
Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist. — Kwame Alexander
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist. — Kwame Alexander
Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost. — Kwame Alexander
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost. — Kwame Alexander
Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander
To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.
— Kwame Nkrumah
Thought without practice is empty; and action without thought is blind.
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.) — Kwame Nkrumah
(The other 'quote' has it backwards.) — Kwame Nkrumah
Racist writing is a craft failure.
— Kwame Dawes
Did y'all arrest Uncle Bob's turkey? It was just criminal what he did to that bird, wasn't it? You
— Kwame Alexander
The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.
— Kwame Nkrumah
Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
— Kwame Nkrumah
The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist
— Kwame Nkrumah
We face neither East nor West; We face forward
— Kwame Nkrumah
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.
— Kwame Nkrumah
The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.
— Kwame Nkrumah
Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
At long last, the battle has ended!
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever! — Kwame Nkrumah
And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever! — Kwame Nkrumah
You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.
— Kwame Alexander
Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.
— Kwame Alexander
I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Conversation doesn't have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it's enough that it helps people get used to one another
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
— Kwame Nkrumah
The most reliable predictor of whether students liked a course, it turned out, was their answer to the question 'Did the professor respect you?
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
Find your grit and put in the work to elevate your game. Champions train. Chumps complain.
— Kwame Alexander
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else
— Kwame Nkrumah
I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.
— Kwame Addai
Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?
— Kobe Bryant
Basketball Rule #9
When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop. — Kwame Alexander
When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop. — Kwame Alexander
Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.
— Kwame Kilpatrick
I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
— Kwame Kilpatrick
men, especially in the African American community" know they're not supposed to cry or "bow down,
— Kwame Kilpatrick