True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Moveee Quotes
A collective archive of words that move us. From African literature to global cinema, captured by the community.
Magic is in our blood.
Home is not a place, it is a feeling.
Feminism is for everybody.
We must reinvent what it means to be human.
There is no pure black culture.
Culture is a site of struggle.
The archive is a site of memory and forgetting.
It is our duty to produce what we need.
A revolution is made by ordinary people.
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
I am not of this planet. I am from Saturn.
The alien is us.
African science fiction is about the present.
For a society to be truly great, it must be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable.
We have always been imagining our futures.
Science fiction is a tool to help you think.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
I’m interested in truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
I wanted to make a film about the beauty of black women.
I want to show the humanity of my people.
We have a duty to tell our own stories.
A film is a piece of life.
Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.
I want to be the voice of my people.
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
I’m always looking for the thing that’s going to subvert my own expectations.
I am trying to make sense of the world I live in.
My work is about looking at things from a different angle.
You can’t be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters, and not feel like you’ve got some kind of social responsibility.
Life is so short you can’t waste even a day subscribing to what someone thinks you can do versus knowing what you can do.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.
Black practices are a rich, textured, infinite, profound body of work.
We rise by lifting others.
My music is a reflection of my environment and the things I’ve gone through.
I’m not a modern-day anything. I’m Burna Boy. I’m the first of my kind.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Forward ever, backward never.
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.
Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies.
The development of Europe is part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.
The colony is not just a place, it is a state of mind.
Art is never a substitute for life. It is the language of life.
Memory is a treacherous landscape.
The word is a stone thrown into the water of the mind.
The archipelago is the symbol of a new world.
Writing is a way of reclaiming what has been stolen.
The cartographer is a man who loves his maps.
My body is a temple, not a tomb.