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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.

Kola Boof

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Kola Boof
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 3
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While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
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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.'
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In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies.
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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.
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People don't want truth, they just want trash.
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My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.
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My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.
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I feel as if I'm going through a mid-life crisis. I don't feel very attractive and it's like I'm frigid or something. I'm aging and it makes me very sad.
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I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
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I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.
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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.
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What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.
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As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.
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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.
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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.
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I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.
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I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.
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I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.
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The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.
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Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.
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