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Emeka Okereke Quotes

born 1980 Nigeria

Emeka Okereke (born 1980) is a Nigerian photographer, filmmaker, writer and visual artist who lives and works in Lagos and Berlin. He is the cofounder of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation.

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The forms these realities take are always sculpted by survival, resistance and the hope of transcending limitations.

A lot of people are waiting to be inspired; a lot of people are waiting to find something to get into.

Every person of black descent is an African.

The most urgent task at hand is the grounding of these fluid forms and diverse black realities.

Being African is to blur the lines between possible and impossible rendering the very state of being indefinable.

The journey is not yet over, and we are far from arriving at a destination.

The black person suffers from projections which are not his or her own.

We must dig deeper for the buried treasure on which all tramples.

Each of our black realities are unique in their own right.

We are one because there is a history and trajectory to every form of our multifarious realities.

Artists we’re not road builders; we don’t build roads but we may as well build a trans-African highway of the mind.

To make a road trip toward there and sort of try to touch that line between Africa and Europe.

We can embrace the proactive possibilities inherent in our different forms of blackness.

We are not one because we have the same skin colour and texture.

And this is what is beautiful now about Africa, when people see something like this, they immediately imagine themselves being able to do it as well.

I believe so much in movement. Movement in the physical sense, movement in the metaphysical sense, so I am always moving; this is basically who I am.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emeka Okereke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.