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"The Afrocentric approach seeks in every situation the appropriate centrality of the African person."

— Molefi Kete Asante Afrocentricity (1988)

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"Afrocentricity". Molefi Kete Asante discussing the centrality and agency of African people in historical and cultural analysis.

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"Afrocentricity is a frame of reference wherein phenomena are viewed from the perspective of the African person."

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"Afrocentricity is simple. If you examine phenomena concerning African people, you must give them agency."

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"Afrocentricity is a paradigm, an orientation toward data, a perspective, that says that African people are subjects, rather than objects."

A common expression among African Americans relates the good to the beautiful, "beauty is as beauty does" or "she's beautiful because she's good." The first statement places emphasis on what a person does, that is, how a person "walks" among others in the society. The second statement identifies the beautiful by action. If a person's actions are not good, it does not matter how the person looks physically. Doing good is equivalent to being beautiful.

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