Quotes from Black Bazar — Alain Mabanckou
born 1966
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4 quotes
He says that the African man was the first man on Earth and that the other races only came after. Therefore, all men are immigrants except African people who are right at home.
Black Bazar (2009)
I’m a man open to the other cultures of the world and I’m not racist at all.
Black Bazar (2009)
A white guy who learns how to play tom-tom, it’s normal, it’s chic, it says
Black Bazar (2009)
Listen up, my boy, be realistic! Drop your sitting around and writing every day, there’s people much better at it, and those people, you see them on telly, they talk well, and when they talk there’s a subject, there’s a verb and there’s an object. They’re born for that, they’re raised in that, while us blacks, it’s not our thing, writing.
Black Bazar (2009)