Kola Boof famous quotes

The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.
-- Kola Boof

#Flower #Black #Earth

I do feel it's crucial that women's opinions be taken equally with men's. But still'I have not been accepted by the American white feminist writers and activists, and frankly I don't care to be, so I am a womanist. I am feisty and I am given to womanish behavior.
-- Kola Boof

#Taken #Men #White

I appear topless as a way of holding on to my Nilotic culture, and I also do it to taunt those Africans who are ashamed of our original cultural beliefs.
-- Kola Boof

#Culture #Way #Belief

When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.
-- Kola Boof

#Passion #Night #Emotional

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.
-- Kola Boof

#Country #Men #America

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.
-- Kola Boof

#Circles #Moral #Cleanliness

Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.
-- Kola Boof

#Mother #Children #Men

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.
-- Kola Boof

#Believe #Thinking #People

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.
-- Kola Boof

#Mean #Race #People

I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Ocean #Eye

I love cooking for men and making love with them'not just reproductive lovemaking but I like sex for the sake of freaking out with men.
-- Kola Boof

#Sex #Men #Making Love

I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.
-- Kola Boof

#Girl #Men #Thinking

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
-- Kola Boof

#Jesus #Men #Islam

In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.
-- Kola Boof

#Army #Gun #Israel

I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black Americans live in the richest country on Earth surrounded by a majority white population and are almost entirely disconnected from their original culture and their God-given identity.
-- Kola Boof

#Country #Real #White

I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
-- Kola Boof

#Integrity #Reading #Writing

By any means necessary, I am for Africa.
-- Kola Boof

#Mean

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.
-- Kola Boof

#Black #Littles #Fine

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Father #Sibling

I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.
-- Kola Boof

#Israel #Years #People

I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Moving #Parent

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid.
-- Kola Boof

#Kids #Writing #Style

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.
-- Kola Boof

#Silent Films #Speak English #Abel

My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.
-- Kola Boof

#Son #Secret #Mind

I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.
-- Kola Boof

#Men #Humanity #Roles

The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.
-- Kola Boof

#Sex #Eye #Writing

I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed me. But I'm talking about what I see in the streets and in the media, this naked hatred that black men have towards the authentic black woman'which is really an indication of black men's hatred for blackness itself.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Father #Hero

Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Father #Men

Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.
-- Kola Boof

#Mean #White #Childhood

I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.
-- Kola Boof

#Careers #Secret #Wish

I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.
-- Kola Boof

#Journey #Names #People

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.
-- Kola Boof

#Strong #Queens #Warrior

I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.
-- Kola Boof

#America #Black #Adopted

The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.
-- Kola Boof

#Men #Photo Of Me #Phones

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
-- Kola Boof

#Kids #Soap #Formal

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.
-- Kola Boof

#Speak English #Parent #Mind

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
-- Kola Boof

#Book #Hemisphere #Autobiography

As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.
-- Kola Boof

#Feminist #Feminism

People don't want truth, they just want trash.
-- Kola Boof

#People #Want #Trash

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.
-- Kola Boof

#Children #Thinking #White

I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me''Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'
-- Kola Boof

#Blessed #Taken #White

I'm too good for assimilation.
-- Kola Boof

#Assimilation

What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.
-- Kola Boof

#London #Osama Bin Laden #Guardian

The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.
-- Kola Boof

#Weirdo #Like Me #Presses

I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.
-- Kola Boof

#Men #My Boyfriend #Kept Woman

I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!
-- Kola Boof

#Sex #Mistress #Definitions

I'm not told what to say by any Republicans and I've never done a personal appearance topless.
-- Kola Boof

#Done #Republican #Appearance

In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.
-- Kola Boof

#Army #People #London

I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.
-- Kola Boof

#Aging #Very Sad #Attractive

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.
-- Kola Boof

#Father #Islamic #Born

One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.
-- Kola Boof

#Mother #Religious #Brother

I have never received full credit from the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army], because the men are very sexist and feel that I'm acting out of place, bringing too much attention to myself - but for the funeral of our leader John Garang, they had me write the poem "Chol Apieth" to eulogize him, and that was their way of acknowledging my contributions.
-- Kola Boof

#Writing #Army #Men