“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.” PeopleChildrenRealUseFatherNamesMy ChildrenAutobiographySiblingUntrueMy Siblings Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleNamesJourneyRememberedRefugeeMy Journey Author:Kola Boof
“In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.” PeopleArmyLondonLiberationGeologist Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWritingActingAttentionLeaderToo MuchHe ManArmyCreditLiberationContributionFuneralSexistActing Out Author:Kola Boof
“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.” PeopleYearsEnemyThousandCommittedIsraelEastAll TimeEmpiresGenocideThousand YearsAtrocities 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
“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.” PeopleYearsMadeSaidBodyAmericaNightPassionParentEmotionalBirthClarityFearlessConvinceStayingAll NightPsychiatristFourteenExhibitionistBirth Parents 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
“Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.” PeopleMeanBlackRaceBlack PeopleAll Black Author:Kola Boof
“I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.” PeopleThinkingStrongSonCookingWarriorQueensMy Son 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
