“The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.” EarthGrowsBlackFlowerBlack WomenUnloved Author:Kola Boof
“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.” MenWantKindChildrenI CanMotherBlackWhiteKnownGreaterIslamSellingSatanTwinsWhite ManBondage Author:Kola Boof
“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.” ThinkingKnowsGivingHeartDifferentReasonPainMotherBlackReligiousTalkingSupportFireBrotherMy HeartGive MeIslamVersionsMy BrotherAdoptedI Love HimGasolineMuslim Women Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI BelieveBlackChristianityHatredTrainSlaveIslamBlack PeopleBlack Women Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleMenCountryAmericaBlackMillionsMediaProduceHonorImportanceGravesHatedAcknowledgeBlack PeopleAncestorBlack WomenWombFertilityAfrican Women Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingHumansChildrenBlackHuman BeingsWhiteSafetyAdoptedAdopting Author:Kola Boof
“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.'” KnowsStatesHappensBlackChurchWhiteUnitedUnited StatesTakenHundredBlessedRaisedRefugee Author:Kola Boof
“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.” KnowsMeanBlackNaturalWhiteChildhoodComfortConnectionsInterviewsTreatmentRefugeeAdoptingPsychiatric Author:Kola Boof
“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.” MindSpeakParentBlackSpeak English Author:Kola Boof
“Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.” PeopleMeanBlackRaceBlack PeopleAll Black Author:Kola Boof
“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.” LittlesBlackFine Author:Kola Boof
“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.” RealCountryEarthCultureGivenBlackDifferencesWhiteConditionsIdentityHugeOriginalsMajorityPopulationDisconnected Author:Kola Boof
“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.” FeelsAmericaBlackCreatorAdoptedHybridBlack AmericaNorth Africa Author:Kola Boof
“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.” ThinkingMenI CanFactsProblemGirlBlackSpecialCryProtectPrejudiceInstanceAwfulTreatmentBlack WomenObsessing Author:Kola Boof
“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.” MenChildrenFatherBlackTalkingWonderfulStreetsMediaHeroHatredNakedMy ChildrenBlack WomenBetrayedIndicationNot TalkingBlacknessDisrespected Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleMenTryingYearsChildrenEyeBlackMy OwnAttentionCarHairOceanBlueBottomLandscapeFakeTortureLakesHolocaustTrappedBlack WomenBlondeSinkingBlue EyesBlonde HairAfrican Women Author:Kola Boof
