“He receives visitors according to a formal ritual marked by gravity, which includes an exchange of gifts and the pouring of a libation from the visitors’ gift of costly gin drop by drop upon the ground, accompanied by solemn incantations.” I like those words because they make me shocked. The author visited a local chief in Ghana. The local chief seated on a raised platform in his countryside. Actually the people there are very backward. They don’t have advanced technology and higher education. The chief and his people live in a silent peace place following their ways. They dressed in colorful robes and keep their culture. In the formal greeting ceremony, they follow their traditions without any change. Even though the gin is pretty expensive for them, they don’t care and just keep it from their ancestry. So I think is that shock me and also the author. “African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.” I like these lines because this man makes me feel respectful. The man lives in a mud hut, he sleeps on the ground, he makes a livelihood by doing hard work, he only have one ceremonial dress which is only made of cheap cloth. Although he is really poor he still keep his spirit, dress formal with his custom, be proud of him self and his history. Just like an old Chinese sentence”A person can be poor, but can not live without ambition.” I think that is the reason why I respect him. He shows me the spirit from his ancestry and the ambition of life.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity." "Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression." I love the text that she put into her story. She is stating that she has seen black people take their generation for granted but now she's seeing that thats not happening. She has seen them mentally been beaten down and blocked by themeselves. They had no were to go. "Unsophisticted Africans will desrcibe a male or female Negro from the United States as 'brown man', 'copper man', or sometimes 'American man'-seldom 'black man', as they desribe themeselves." African Americans of high power feel as though they have the right to call an African American of low powere or no power at all, whateever they fell like calling them. They don't have the respect to call them by thier name or less as something thats not offensive to them. They seldomly call them black men, not knowing what else to call them. They African man would never describe themselves as cooper, or brown. So why would anyone else be able to call them something they wouldn't call themselves.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I like this quotes because it could tell me that African America felt outsider after they came back to their hometown. It had different custom and barrier language between the African America and African man, however African America seems disconnect with their own country. I feel this situation is very similar with ABC (American Born Chinese). Unfortunately, some of ABC does not know how to speak and write in Chinese and they seem lost their own culture. However, most of them were born in America where a diversity culture union had. Fortunately, I am a recent immigrant to America which still connects to my own country because I grow up there. I learned how to speak and write Chinese as well, and also know own country history and culture rather than these ABC. Satisfyingly, I study these two countries’ culture as well; I will not lose either one.
Here are my second favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. “White and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.” Why I choice this quote because it indicated white and colored American found their common identity sets them apart from Africans and Europeans, and they are counterparts which one that has the same functions and characteristics as another
One quote that I like is “The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.” I like this quote because even though she does not stay in Africa or really know who her ancestors she still considers them her people. Like for example with me I don’t consider myself black but I consider myself African American. Only because I do not act like everybody else and I like to be my own person.
Another quote I like is “My genetic heritage over several centuries has been too diverse to preserve physical characteristics identifying me with any tribal group.” I like this line because it’s a true line and I feel the same way she feels.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity."
“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.” This man makes me feel respectful. The man lives in a mud hut, he sleeps on the ground, he makes a livelihood by doing hard work, he only has one ceremonial dress which is made of cheap cloth! even though he is really poor, he still keep his spirit, dress' formal to his custom, and he's proud of himself and his history.
my 2nd favorite quote is “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” This quote could mean that African Americans felt like outsiders after they came back to their hometown. they had different customs, and barrier language between the African American man and the African man. However, "African American" seems disconnected with their own country.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” African American went back to their hometown, what they think were they’re different from the people in their hometown, they way they speak, the way they dress. And they feel not the same with them; feel like they were outsiders of their hometown. But they never feel that in the United States. Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” “By contrast, white and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.” When Americans went to African, they also feel outsiders, but even they’re not African Americans, they could find out something its same with the Africans.
These are my favorite quotes from the story, "What is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity":
"I have also watched a majogony-colored young man from the United States decked out in gorgeous Nigerian robes and headdresses only to have the local Africans laugh at him and he strolled along the street. His coloring blended his American gait."
This quote shows how close minded people are in the world.Only because somebody grew up in a different environment, doesn't mean they aren't worthy of sharing the same culture and background.The Africans assume only because the guy was from America, he's not worthy of wearing their traditional clothing. I know I that I've grown up in America and I have never been to the country my family is from, and I feel like I don't want to go there because I will feel out of place, and I'm so accustomed to the American lifestyle. So I'm kind of the person that sets the stereotypes in Africa, because I'm a model of what they are thinking a typical colored American is.
"Understandably, people from the United States who were suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here, but they poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into an African environment."
I like this quote because it's telling us that only because somebody's a certain skin color,in this case brown, doesn't automatically make them an African. This quote kind of contradicts the first quote. It also shows us that it's not so easy to have your OWN people accept you because of your appearance, you have to earn their respect and show that you are connected or trying to get connected with your roots. I know if I went to my country, everybody would call me "gringa", because I have been Americanized, and even though I LOOK Latina, they will see right past that if I act as if I was born and raised in America. It really sucks!
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity." "My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This quote connects to my life because when she says "my foreignness is evident," she is saying that she can't hide the differences between her and the people from Ghana. I felt exactly the same when I came to the United States. The differences between me and the American people were evident. As the time passed by I started loosing my Salvadorean accent. I felt as if I was betraying my Salvadorean origin. I adapted myself to the American life style but I could never loose my Salvadoren roots. "I find that my peculiar racial historyhas made me irrevocably ann American, a product of the New Wolrd." I like this quote because it connects to my life Like Pauli Murray, when I came to the United Stated I felt more Salvadorean than ever. "A product of the Center of America." It is something I can't change. When I was in El Salvador I didn't care about my nationality at all. I think that when I was there I didn't really know that I was Salvadorean. It was here where I discovered who I am.
Here are my favorite quote from " What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity"
My favorite quote is "the young Ghananian guide who gliby racited these historic events as he led me about could not possibly know how immediate these happenings were to me or the tumultuos emotions i felt at that moment." I like this quote because the woman is expressing her anger towords what the african americans been through.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,“What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” "understandly, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not autimatically qualify one toi fit into the african environment." this quotes shows that African American went back to the Africa but they still want to find a place that acceptable for them cause their color, hope, and something else from inside.the dark skin doesn't means anything not because their environment. go back to Africa maybe the best way to find an acceptable identity. "when i ask myself "what is Africa to me?" i discover that without knowlege of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum." I like this quotes because the Africa is a great place for them, not because they have the knowlege and discover something they know the Africa was a great places and also she discover who she is.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Question of Identity." "As has happened throughout human history when people of different cultures come together in close contact. I am the result of a considerable biological intermixture as well as culture cross-fertilization." This quote speaks to me because anyone who comes to know will begin to realize that I speak Spanish a few days after they met me. Then they start asking question like, "Are you Mexican?" I replied "No" and then I try to explain to them what I am and they begin to look at me funny because the question they will probably ask is, "You are mixed, huh?” And I also replied "No. Both of my parents are from the same country in Central America. It irritates me because they don’t understand the fact that my ancestors come from Africa and that's why I have that type of skin color and that type of hair. And since barely anyone pays attention in history class there's no point in me telling them the whole thing. Another one of my favorite quotes from the story is "I am beginning to understand that I am the product of a new history which began on African shores but which has not been shared with Africans, a history accompanied by such radical changes in a new environment that over time it produced a new identity." Now this quote is my favorite because it makes me understand that the reason why every one thinks I come from a culture mixed family is because most of the United States population, well at least 70% to 80% are made up mixed cultures and I really understand that, but the problem is that they don’t listen so I get frustrated. But that’s O.K.!
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murry article, what is Africa to Me? A Question of identity. "We are developing a distinctively new ethnic type." I think she means due to all the slaves that were spread though out the contents, this has developed a new ethnic type thorough out the world. Interracial dating has developed a new ethnic time trough out the world. I think there shouldn’t be racist anymore because of the ethnic variety in our world today. "Coming back to mother Africa to see my people." She returns to Africa not knowing her ancestors or back round but still says she is going to Africa to see "my people". Even though she was born in America she calls Africa "Mother Africa". She feels close to Africa. She knows that's where all her ethnic back round lies. She says in the story she doesn’t know her people. Yet she says she coming to Africa to see her people. I think she just wants to be apart of a Africa so much she is just proud to call them al her people.
One of my favorite quotes from "Raisin In The Sun" is the following. "On the other hand i have met a white American born and reared near the swamps of Georgia who tells me he is able to eat local food, drink local water, and fare better against health hazards than his Negro friends from the northern United States because he built up an immunity to malaria and hookworm during his Georgia youth." This quote stands out to me because of what she is saying. She is saying that even though this white man is not from Africa he is able to fare better against the enviornment than actual descendents from Africa. For all we know his ancestors could have been slave traders. It strikes me as ironic because of the situation. The other quote I chose was "I have also watghed a mahogany-colored young man from the United States decked out in gorgeouus Nigerian robes and headdress, only to have the local Africans laugh at him as he strolled along the street." I chose this quote because i liked the meaning I saw behind it. When i read it it made me think that even if we put on a mask and pretend to be someelse people will always be able to see the truth. Both of these quotes stood out to me when i read them.
My Favorite Quote for the book "What is Afica" by Pauli Murray is "Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This is my favorite quote becuase she has seen afican people take their there heritage for granted and reallt serious. Like they haven't forgot where they came from. This quote is important becuase many people have forgot where they came from and just like me im afican but im more american than i am afican. This quote stuck out to me because its important to know where you came from and what your ancestors are and i really wish that i know whats my ancestors becuase i'll like to represent my african culture. The next quote that i'm going to pick is “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I really like this quote becuase it talks about how africans americans felt like they weren't wanted in africa by their own culture becuase some of the africans felt like they abonded their heritage. African ameicans in america speak more american and we dress different and they'll just look at us like there's no point of talking to us becuase we want kno what were talking about and how it feels to live in Africa. This quote stuck out to me becuase africans americans didn't feel as welcomed as they thought. They seemed like everybody thought as if they were invisible. At last they felt like they wanted by the people of their color and that really upseted them alot.
My favorite quotes from the article "what is Africa to me?"- A question of identity,was picked personaly by me. "A remote African ancestry about which i knew little linked with a heritage of slavery continued inferior status in America has been a source of a hidden shame." This quote to me told me that she had to find out her heritage because would feel a shamed of her self if she didnt know about her own background and she feel like she still is in slavery from living in America. The next quote is "I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded in my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my background and my relationship to it." She is saying that she feel that she has to go to Africa to Africa to accept her heritage to accept her self fully, also to wash all her shame away.
"i was too numbed to tell the cheif that i am only two generations removed from slavery". i choose this quote because she was close to being a slave, and her grandmother was a slave and now the africans have rights. this is my favorite line because her family has been throuh a lot and because in just two generations a lot can happen. when i read this quote i felt the pain her grandmother went through having to do thing she didnt wont to.
After reading "What Is Africa to Me? - A Question of Identity" by Pauli Murray, I choose these two quotes: "They know vaguely of their "brothers who went across the sea",but their image of these "brothers" is that of black people like themselves" and "Watching the auction through peepholes were the African chiefs who were growing rich and powerful from the lucrative trade in human fresh".These words greatly surprised me because I had imagined the slave situation differently. I've always thought that Europeans were completely at fault, that they were the cruel people that sold lots of innocent Africans to slavery. I thought that the chiefs gave away their people unwillingly, and that the people who live in Africa know what happened and remember their ancestors and people of their nation who were sold into slavery. In reality it turned out that everything is different. Most Africans have vague and uncertain ideas about slavery and what really happened at that time, and African chiefs were actually partly responsible for the slavery of thousands of people. The chiefs got profit from these sales and the didn't really care about the fate of those who they sold. I think they were also cowards because they didn't have the strenght to actually sit on the auction, but they prefered to watch it thorough peepholes so that the slaves who managed to run away would never know who sold them into slavery. Also I realised that most Africans don't understand that the enslaved Africans who lived on American soil and their descendants have changed, they are no longer Africans, but African Americans: they've started thinking differently and reacting differently to situations. I found out a lot from these two quotes, and they changed my opinion about slavery in Africa.
"tell me, madame, are you english land or american lady" this qoute stood out to me because i thought she was african but the guy is asking her if shes english. so she shouldnt be saying about her haratage when she's propper and people think shes white
i have seen a few american Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana. They have worn the Kente (the Ghanain national cloth, a brilliantly colored woven fabric),eaten the local "chop", and attempted to associate only with Ghanains." i like this quote because even though they stay in america they still do. like the wear kente cloth in america and they also eat chops.they are pretening to be something they are not like wearing the robes and eating the food only for the africans.
"projecting myself backward in to time, i tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of this agoning odeal, which marred the introctuction of africans into america." shes imaging herself in the shoes of the african americans who experience a terrorfly situation which marked the africans into america.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is africa to me? - A question of identity." " My first favorite quote is when the ghanaian man says the Pauli "Tell me madame are you english lady or are you american lady." the people in africa can see if you are african, or english, or american they can tell by the way you walk. Some african american, and african english belive they can just come to africa and just act like them but they have been changed they still have american traits, and can not change that.My next favorite quote is "What is Africa to me" this quote is my favorite quote because i am a young african american and i believe that i connect with this quote because every time i here about africa or think about my great ancestors i think about this quote. sometimes i want to forget about what happened to my ancestors in the past,but i just cant let go of it because i feel that i have a goal to go back and learn more about my ancestors. Every time africa comes up my hairs stand on end because i want to learn about ny ancestors because i really dont know a thing.I feel like i have a connection with the continent
The quotes that caught my eye in the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?- A question of identity, are: " Here again I saw the self-possession of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This quote mean that the author is seeing the kept spirits of black people that hasn't been crippled or messed with.I chose this quote because at first i didn't understand it be later got the meeting and realized its important. The next quote that was appealing to me was: "I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrowful history in the monuments to the slave trade along the West African Coast." The author is describing the buildings of the slave trade.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity." "After living and working here for almost a year, I find that my pecular racial history has made me irrevocably an America, a product of the new world." I like this text because in some ways I feel connected to what it says. I was born in Mexico but only lived there for nine months of my life and the rest here, in the United States. No matter how much I say I am Mexican from Mexico there is no way I would survive there for a year. I am a total stranger there!! On the contrary, here, in the U.S i am not a stranger. It is as if I was born here. No matter how much I deny being from the U.S I am from here because all my life has been here. "When I ask myself 'What is Africa to me?' I discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum." To me this quote reminds me on how much immigrants (which we all are) loose in this country (and in others). Many people came here without knowing that someday their children would forget about "home" and all the traditions. Many traditions have been lost by conquerors in the past. Thousands of dialects in Mexico have been lost to spanish. That isn't the only place where many things have been erase. It's all over the world. So this quote talks to anyone.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. This is my favor line “I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrowful history in the monuments to the slave trade along the west African coast.” I like this line because it could tell me the history of Africa. The author saw the heavy trade of slave in West Africa. The people at her hometown don't have the right to living the place they want. One controls by local Chief to sale them to Europe and America. In that Chief point of view, one it is only an item not a person. Also Guinea in geography are surrounding by water. These businesses are very easy to transport salve to the destination.
“Understandably, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope the find an acceptable identity here, but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into the African environment. I have seen a few American Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana.” This is my favorite quotes, because it isit is that happensre in myself. As immigrant from China, everyone wants have the best adapted the America society. But the way I dress is different from American. Whatever I try, we I still Chinese. There is some Chinese American, we call them the ABC “America Born China” they are adapted this America society. Unfortunately, they can't read and write Chinese. This is other similar example like the quotes.
After reading the article by Pauli Murray "What is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity." there were somethings that she said that really caught my eye. Overall there were two quote that I liked the most.
"I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded in my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my Africen background and my relationship with it" I choose this qoute as one of my favorites because I can relate to it by the way that I interpreted it. I can relate to it because I am half Nicaraguence and half something else and I feel "shame" it's not exaclty that but I guess you can call it that for now, for my other half. I never mention it or even care its a part of me that I always fail to mention or even think of as it being ME. Like it says in the quote I need to confront or in my case forget and ignore my past and what has happened before me and maybe this will help me better appriciate what I really am. You know just fix my relationship with it.
"Facing a vast continent of varied peopls whose appearance, language, and customs differ from my own, I am unable to conjure up some vicarious identity and can do little more than to relate to the people I meet on the basis of our common humanity" This second quote I think tells the very truth of people nowdays. Each of us as individuals are so different and no matter what we say we are or where we say where from we are really a person of mixed cultures. I think that we shouldn't conversate with people just beacsue they are anything like us after all we are ALL humans and when it comes down to human nature we are have all the same characteristics. Culture cannot be perserved we interacte with each other (hopefully) too much to not pick up little things of others. I guess thats it. These were my two favorite quotws after reading the article multiple times trying to find something that I found interesting.
“I haven't the slightest notion who my particular African ancestors were, what region or tribe they came from, whether they were traders, fisherfolk, herdspeople, or farmers, what their customs were or what language they spoke. “ (192)
Rather than my favorite quote, but the one which most relates to me is the one above. She doesn't have a clue who her people are, where they came from. what they look like, or anything. On my mother's side of the family, I don't know anything about them. All I know is that they are from Mexico, and they spoke Spanish. I wish I could meet them, or even see a picture of them, but I know it's not going to happen, because my own Mother doesn't have contact with them. What can I do?
"My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This is my other "favorite quote". I personally am not ashamed of being born in America, or not speaking spanish, or being in touch with my culture and all. I see English as my language, and my ways of life my culture and America as my homeland. I will always honeor my Latino hertiage and all, but I do not feel bad that I'm not a "true" Latino. America has adopted countless cultures, skin colors, religions and more in it's people. I'm proud to have had been born here.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article "What Is Africa To Me-A Question Of Identity."
"Coming back to Mother Africa to see my people" voiced by some negro visitors from the united states,cannot change this stubborn fact.america is home to me,however alienated or disinherited i have felt at times" I like this quote because it shows that even if she hasnt gone to africa ,she still feels like a part of africa.she will be happy to see her people.she doesnt care if she feels alienated as long as shes home at Africa. i just like how she said this quote about how at home she feels .shes an americanbut that wouldnt stop her from seeing her own people.i would feel the same.i was born in the united states and i wonder how my home country looks like in Nicaragua to visit my people.this was a good quote. "What is Africa to me?" i discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum." I like this quote too because it says that without knowledge of her past,that Africa still reman=ins a mystery to her.i would feel the same because i wouldnt know what they were,what they do,or where they live.i maybe wouldnt know how they look.even if you look different it would br great just visiting your home country.it would be a nice journey,dicovering everything about your past,your home countryand their way of living and culture.you will be a foreign person but then the rest of your family will notice you.this is a great article.
One qoute that i liked from "What is Africa to me?--A Question of idenity"“The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.”I feel that's is true because she feels that the people from her Mother Land is her family even though she might not know them but she feels connected to them as if they stayed with them their whole life. My second quote: “African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.” I feel that all African American men should be like that because you shouldn't feel down because of the race and want people feel about you still hold your head up with pride.
"When I ask myself 'What Africa to me' I discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exist in a great vacuum." The way I interred the line/quote is that in a scenes that when they(whites looking for free labor to replace the Native Americans because they were dying off) brought use here(to work in their plantations) that they tried to strip us from our identity as Africans(soon to be referred to as Blacks or African American) but only over time we loose it. And at the time were in we have lost it. I know for me I think about what life would be like if we were never brought here? Because over the years other ethnicity have been mixed in altogether. When I read this line/quote I thought trying to trace my ancestry to find out what tribe, village, and state my ancestors came from. And to get scenes of what kind of life style my ancestors lived. So i can get a scene of my past so it dose not exist in a vacuum.
“White and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.”
This is quite an insightful quote. Pauli describes that merely because they possess the same skin color, African-Americans automatically assume that they have some amount of brotherhood between each other, when in reality there ways of life are completely different (see quote 2). Here, African-Americans and White-Americans find their kinship not because of their appearance, but because of their fundamental American qualities - how they move,talk,act,etc.
"Here again I saw the self-possessions of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression."
Although they may not have many luxury possessions or social power, Pauli notes that even in their long history of sadness, the "African man" has a natural layer of dignity for being who they are - prideful Africans. Unlike many African-Americans,the African man does not require authority to be prideful - they have lasted, their way of life is intact, and they are united.
Here’re my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity." My first quote is "I was too numbed to tell this chief that I am only two generations removed from slavery, that my own grandmother was born a slave, and that I had seen it's scars on her personality.” This quote made me think a lot about my ancestors and what generation number am I away from slavery if it was still going on. I couldn't imagine myself a slave I would cry each and everyday as long as I was a salve. Then I would think about getting whipped on my back with a whip for not doing something that I was not suppose to do or just being black woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I think about slavery I think what did they pick in the green fields that they grew, what they ate, what the wear. And did they have a place were they can lay there head or just being warm in a bed like I am. I also thought that someone in your family was a slave for you so the next generation didn't have to. When I see slavery taking place on movies or just TV makes me mad and thankful. It makes me mad because the women wren treated differently from the men were. Sometimes the master would have relation with the women so he can make more slaves so he can sell them or use them to his own use
My second quote is “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
Here’re my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity." My first quote is "I was too numbed to tell this chief that I am only two generations removed from slavery, that my own grandmother was born a slave, and that I had seen it's scars on her personality.” This quote made me think a lot about my ancestors and what generation number am I away from slavery if it was still going on. I couldn't imagine myself a slave I would cry each and everyday as long as I was a salve. Then I would think about getting whipped on my back with a whip for not doing something that I was not suppose to do or just being black woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I think about slavery I think what did they pick in the green fields that they grew, what they ate, what the wear. And did they have a place were they can lay there head or just being warm in a bed like I am. I also thought that someone in your family was a slave for you so the next generation didn't have to. When I see slavery taking place on movies or just TV makes me mad and thankful. It makes me mad because the women wren treated differently from the men were. Sometimes the master would have relation with the women so he can make more slaves so he can sell them or use them to his own use
My second quote is “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
Here’re my favorite quote from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity." "I haven't the slightest notion who my particular african ancestors were, what region or tribe they came from, whether they were traders,fisherfolk, heards people, of fermers, whta their customs were or what language they spoke." This is my favorite quote/line because it kind of reminds me of me. I mean i kno for the most part were my family is from and what part. i know the basics, but i know that we're not just mexican we're either mixed with spanish or fillipino i'm just not sure which one. I want to know whether the mexican side of my family were aztecs or mayans, what their native language was, and when the culture got mixed. I have so many questions and like her i feel like i should know more but it's not that easy to find out. I really do feel connected with this quote the way she wants to learn more about her self and her culture.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity." "My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This quote connects to my life because when she says "my foreignness is evident," she is saying that she can't hide the differences between her and the people from Ghana. I felt exactly the same when I came to the United States. The differences between me and the American people were evident. As the time passed by I started loosing my Salvadorean accent. I felt as if I was betraying my Salvadorean origin. I adapted myself to the American life style but I could never loose my Salvadoren roots. "I find that my peculiar racial historyhas made me irrevocably ann American, a product of the New Wolrd." I like this quote because it connects to my life Like Pauli Murray, when I came to the United Stated I felt more Salvadorean than ever. "A product of the Center of America." It is something I can't change. When I was in El Salvador I didn't care about my nationality at all. I think that when I was there I didn't really know that I was Salvadorean. It was here where I discovered who I am.
“They have emerged as individual’s who my be kind or cruel, honest or thievish Industrious or lazy arrogant or gentle as the case may be.”
What it means is…
Every one has there own differences. Every one doesn’t fell the same way as every one else. But still every one should be treated the same way as any one else would be treated, with the same respect, responsibility punishments, and all rules and all rites should be given to everyone. Rather your white, black, Latino, chines, japans, Irish or any other race, every one is human that deserve to have rites. one.
"I tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of organizing ordeal, which marked the introduction of Africans in America."
I think It means that her confusion about were destination there heading to but projecting herself backward in time, I guess she wasn't know what's going to happen to her.
"I find that my peculair racial history has made me irrevocably an Amrican, a product of the new world."
I guess it means that she forgot her culture and race. She made her an American. Her racial history to a another culture made her irrevocably, so this quote tells to her African American.
“They have emerged as individual’s who my be kind or cruel, honest or thievish Industrious or lazy arrogant or gentle as the case may be.”
What it means is…
Every one has there own differences. Every one doesn’t fell the same way as every one else. But still every one should be treated the same way as any one else would be treated, with the same respect, responsibility punishments, and all rules and all rites should be given to everyone. Rather your white, black, Latino, chines, japans, Irish or any other race, every one is human that deserve to have rites.
"His colorings blended with his human surroundings but he could not conceal american gait". In the story they said that the african men can pick out an american walking along th street from a distinctive relaxed hip movement. Also, they've watched a mohagany colored man from the United States decked out in gorgeous Nigerian robes and headdress,only to have the local Africans laugh at him as he strolled along the street. This made me feel like it was wrong that the Africans laughed at him just because he was an American and tried to dress like an African.It doesn't really matter if someone tries to dress the way they dress in Afica because at least he has the spirit of an African.he may havce blended in because of his skin color but the Africans knew anyways because of the way he walked. "My foreigness is evident in my physical appearance and in me bearing, betraying my American origin". As this has happened throughout human history when people of differnt cultures have come together in close contact,I am the result of the considerable biological cross-fertilization." This means that he is obvios that he is a foreigner from the United States by the way he looks. I think that it may be easy to know if someone is foreign but you should still accept them as one of your own.He couldn't hide the fact that he's from an American origin.
She is confused because when she went to Africa to find her roots she found something completely different. She found out that Africans have been through a lot and they work tremendously hard to eat, have a house, feed there kids and just survive in Africa. The things they do in one day are things she wouldn’t think of doing. She feels she is not worth enough to call her self an African.
"Here again I saw the self-possesion of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression" The author sees that there dreams havent been trampled over these generations. She also sees that they all have pride in themselves. This quote stuck out to me because I thought that it there dreams would have been crushed through all those bad times they had to go through. But it shows how they all kept together during slavery. "They have worn the Kente, eaten tthe local "chop" and attempted to associate only with Ghanains. In time, they have quietly discontinued the local dress and little by little returned to American-sponsored functions.They have wound up with digestive disorders and related ailments." I like this qoute because it says how you can't jus walk into a different enviornment and adapt to it quickly, then try to go back to your old enviornment.
"Here again I saw the self-possesion of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression" The author sees that there dreams havent been trampled over these generations. She also sees that they all have pride in themselves. This quote stuck out to me because I thought that it there dreams would have been crushed through all those bad times they had to go through. But it shows how they all kept together during slavery. "They have worn the Kente, eaten tthe local "chop" and attempted to associate only with Ghanains. In time, they have quietly discontinued the local dress and little by little returned to American-sponsored functions.They have wound up with digestive disorders and related ailments." I like this qoute because it says how you can't jus walk into a different enviornment and adapt to it quickly, then try to go back to your old enviornment.
"I came to Africa, among other reasons, to see for myself black people in their own homeland and come to grips with the pervasive myth of innate racial inferiority that stigmatizes all people of discernable African descent in the United States." I like this quote because it shows that she was determine to find her real identity. She wanted to know how it feels like to be an African. She wants to know how people live their lives. She went back to Africa to learn about their culture. She tries to compare the life of being in the United States and Africa. "What is Africa to me?" She is asking herself what does really Africa means to her. She wants to know if she's really an African or American. She is confuse about her own identity. She think of herself as an African, but she is still an American.
"unsophisticated AFricans will describe male or female Negro from the united states as brown man copper man or sometimes America man seldom black man as they describe themselves" This is how people describe each other and how they feel " American backgrond without ambivalence and return to my country with renewed determination to claim my heritage" She is happy she learn about her heritage
One quote that I like is “The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.” I like this quote because even though she does not stay in Africa or really know who her ancestors are she still considers them as her people. And thats why i love this quote because consider that all blacks came from Africa. Just Becaus you were born in America or the US dont mean that you originated here. And the last qoute that i like in the story is "I may overhear the word nigger when i pass some white kid,"says Ray Jr.,"but it's not directed at me." That quote tells me that anyone can call someone out of there name,but mainly black are called niggas just because are past heritage.
One of my favorite quotes from the story"What is Africa to Me"is "I am beginning to understand that I am the start of a new history that began on African shores."
I think this quote means that she is beginning to realize where her roots form and what her background and heritage are about.She is beginning to notice why life is the way it is and how people in the Americas and this time period have a great glamorous life and should be greatful.
Another one of my favorite quotes is "Even if my tawny color did not make me stand out from the masses of black Africans my unconscious movements reveal my origins."
I think this quote is saying that because of her pale brown skin color she didn't fit in but as she got use to it her obvious actions made her true self and her roots stand out and show.
"i tried to feel the bewilderment the anguish and the terror of this agonizing ordeal" This quote is talking about that this person is upset, and scard, sad, mad,crazy "i realize the extent to which many africans themsevles participated in the slave trade" the quote is saying that during the slave trade that black people was slaves and that black people didnt like white black peolpe so didnt like they on color.
This are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article “What is Africa to me-A question of identity?” "Understandably, people from the United States who were suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here, but they poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into an African environment." I like this quote because is telling us that not only because the skin of color of somebody is a certain color in this case black, it doesn’t mean he or she is from Africa, and that the Africans Americans that are in the United State and have problems with their identity could go to Africa to find out but it’s not 100 percent that they will find it they could found hope color but maybe they won’t found their identity. And this one, "I was too numbed to tell the cheif that I am only two generations removed from slavery", when she says this she was scared because she could had been one of them and like her grandma and her mother too.
"Tell me, Madame, are you English lady or American lady?"
I like this quote because in their time America blacks were usually put down as if they were something different then that whites but in africa they can tell if somone is American by the little things in which we all share like our walk the way we talk and other things.
"By contrast, white and colored Americans living and working in West Africa dicovery their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African couterparts"
This quote shows that we have more in common than we let our selfs see. and also that if we did go to another country to find our "ansesters" we would probaly still find the rejections we still had at home but worse than before
Here are my favorite quotes from the article What Is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity "I am beginning to understand that im a product of a new history which began on African shores but which has not been shared by Africans." I get where she is coming from and understand that African-American people originally came from the shores of Africa but never really been there and dont really know much about the country.The other quote i really like is "I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded im my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my African background and my relationship to it."I also get where she is coming from because even though I'm originally from Africa I never been there or know a lot about it.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Puali Murray article "What is Africa to Me?- A Question of Identity. "I tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of this agonigizing ordeal, which markedthe introduction of Africa into America." I feel that this quote means is that the author feels that she is trying to feel the same feeling of her ancestors. "I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrow history in the monuments to the slave trade along the West African coast." I feel that this quote means that the author had the evidence of her ancestors being sold as slaves and she is discribing how it feels to her.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,"What is afica to me?-A question of indentity". Understandably,people from the united states who have suffered so many indignities because of the color of there skin hope to find and acceptable indentity here(afica).I like this comment because people do think just cause there colored skin they automatically qualify one to fit in an afican environment. Reality is People have tried to dress,eat and act like afican but somehow always returned to there american ways.You have to no more about the people and there culture to fit in not just because the color of your skin. My second favorite quote is particularly because african ancestry is associated with cruel rejection in america findind themselves aliens in afica is a severe jolt to those who come expecting instant acceptance from their "afican brothers".Reality is when they come to afica they are shut off from the massess of people by barriers of language and customs and feel like an outsider in a way they never felt in the united states.They find that they are more accepted in the united states then around people that look just like them.In the united states there all american and have more in common then with each other then with people that look just like them but are from a whole different country.They hope to find acceptance but never acually do.These quotes teach me alot.
Here are my favorite quotes from the story “What is Africa To me?-A Question of identity
“This great slave-trading fort of the Gulf of Guinea was built originally by the Portuguese in the 1481, was captured by the Dutch in 1637, and eventually felt on the eighteenth century”. This quote is very important to me because it tells me how and who built the slave-trade. The Portuguese actually built it until the other colonies started to take over. Although the English colonies ended up with it last.
“I had to follow in my imagination the movement of the captives as I walked through the dark, muggy dungeons, tunnel-shaped rooms, and small courtyards where they were stored awaiting shipments; I retraced their footsteps as they were herded along the black new ethnic type’, and suggests that the physical stamina and adaptive qualities of this type are due to “hybrid vigor”. This quote is important to me because the author describes the way that the slaves lived when they were getting ready to be shipped to the Americans. Its describing the courtyards , and the tunnel shaped rooms .
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?-A question of identity.” My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin. I choose this quote because it is explaining about he physical appearance or the way she is. This quote makes me feel proud of my race that is different than her, but in the same way. She said that her culture and her race is evident in her physical appearance and it doesn’t matter if she come from Arica, she feels herself as a American. “I find that my peculiar racial history has made me irrevocable an American, a product of the new world.” My connections to this quote are that I live in the U.S. and I feel myself as a Mexican because my history has made me that way. This quote says the true because I think that someone who is educated in a different culture and has others origins will feel and identified in the culture that was educated. This quote sticks out to me because I feel like her in this country because I’m a irrevocable Mexican and this is not my culture.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?-A question of identity.” My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin. I choose this quote because it is explaining about he physical appearance or the way she is. This quote makes me feel proud of my race that is different than her, but in the same way. She said that her culture and her race is evident in her physical appearance and it doesn’t matter if she come from Arica, she feels herself as a American. “I find that my peculiar racial history has made me irrevocable an American, a product of the new world.” My connections to this quote are that I live in the U.S. and I feel myself as a Mexican because my history has made me that way. This quote says the true because I think that someone who is educated in a different culture and has others origins will feel and identified in the culture that was educated. This quote sticks out to me because I feel like her in this country because I’m a irrevocable Mexican and this is not my culture.
What is Africa to me?-A question of Identity. 1st QUOTE: "I have seen a few American Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana. They have worn the Kente (the Ghanaian National cloth, a brilliantly colored woven Fabric), Eaten the local "chop," and attempted to associate only with Ghanaians. 2nd QUOTE: "The romantic notion of coming back to Mother Africa to see my people voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.."
The first quote reminds me of when i go to my country El Salvador, that when i go over there, people over there see me differently. The clothing is way different than an American girl like me. I try to fit in but somehow they all don' accept it only because i wasn't born there. I talk exactly like them with the accent and everything but they don't accept me either way and it pisses me off but my family over there isn't like that so i don't have to worry about home in El Salvador. The second quote because she is confused. She doesn't really know who her ancestors where but she still had considered them her people. I don't know who my ancestors are but i know where i come from. My roots are Guatemalan. But when there was a war there my great grandma moved to El Salvador with all her children and from there was when my uncles and aunties and my parents where born. So when people ask me where I'm from i only say El Salvador.
My 1st qoute that caught my eye was:“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.” I think it means you don't need to have alot to get by and be proud of it,but be proud of how you get by with nothing.
My 2nd qoute is:“They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and customs and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I know that is,When I was seven years old and went to my country I had no idea what anyone said in spanish until I was ten.
My 3rd qoute is:"After living and working here for almost a year, I find that my pecular racial history has made me irrevocably an American, a product of the new world." I think assimilating to a new custom can overwrite the old-self and drastically change that person.
My 4th qoute is:"Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This really stood out to me because it shows how strong people can be.
my first quote is..... what is africa to me? the romantic motion of coming back to mother africa see my people voiced by some negro visitors from the united states cannot change this stubborn fact.
i as being myself am not ashamed of where i come from or myself. my culture family and friends will stay together and be apart of me and my life.
My favorite quotes from the article "what is Africa to me?"- A question of identity,was picked personaly by me.
"A remote African ancestry about which i knew little linked with a heritage of slavery continued inferior status in America has been a source of a hidden shame." This quote to me told me that she had to find out her heritage because would feel a shamed of her self if she didnt know about her own background and she feel like she still is in slavery from living in America. And I fell the same way because they say we are free but we still have a million and 1 rules. I say the only thing we have is freedom of speach,
hello peers& mr.e The reason why i picked this qoute is because i like my culture and someday i will like to visit it someday. My favorite qote is.... what is africa to me because it also reminds me of all the hard work my ancestors been through such as in the story when she said it to herself....by the way alot of african americans today actually dont know a thing about their culture because still today blacks are acting like they dont have any sense when everyone knows blacks are very intellegence even though they dont act like it. that's why its good to know every little thing about your culture because the way they struggling back home is a mess imean something terriable if it wasent possiable of our ancestors then we probably would be doing the same horriable they are going through rite now!!!! so from my oppion that's good books and stories are being brought up on our cultures today. ~thats the end of that so ima leave it at that~
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,” “What is Africa to Me-A question of identity. “These experiences have left me deeply shaken” Well this quote was good because I like the way it sounded, and it also had some feelings to it. The reason why I really like this quote is because I experienced some feeling when somebody told me something like that.
Heres my other quote "i was too numbed to tell this cheif that iam only generous removed from siavery" well i like this quote because the blacks was trying to get removed from slavery.This mean to me that they was trying there best to get out of slavery.and they didnt want to be in slavery period.
"I came to Africa, among other reasons, to see for myself black people in their own homeland and to come to grips with the pervasive myth of innate racial inferiority..." I like this quote because it reminds me of myself. The reason why is because she is happy to see people of her own culture and I also get happy when I see my culture and I see the same culture as me. "These experiences have left me deeply shaken, perhaps as much by the casual manner in which facts of the slave trade are related without emberresment or feeling as by the facts themselves." when I go to places where all my people are I am amazed that they are not emberrased of the fact how poor some can be over their and how the Spanish came and be a oart of our culture. __________________________________________________
"Understandably, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptably identity here, but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into the African environment." In this quote the Lady is talking about that its hard to fit in a black environment, they also was humiliated because of the color of their skin.
MY FAVORITE QUOTE IS.. "I had to follow my imangination, the movement of the capitives as i walked through the dark" I CHOOSE THIS QUTE BECAUSE.. I think it maens she was probaly scared and thought that something was going to happen to her.So she had to trust in herself as she was walking with the fear in her.So she was like she dont want to become a prisoner because it probaly happend to her family members and maybe she think she is noxt so thats why she was terroffied and probaly horrified.
MY OTHER FAVORITE QUOTE IS.. "I was too numbed to tell this chief that i am only generations removed from slaverys" I CHOOSE THIS QUOTE BECAUSE.. Her grandma was a slave and i can see her suffering from her grandma,and that he was scared because
#1:: “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
“He receives visitors according to a formal ritual marked by gravity, which includes an exchange of gifts and the pouring of a libation from the visitors’ gift of costly gin drop by drop upon the ground, accompanied by solemn incantations.” I like those words because they make me shocked. The author visited a local chief in Ghana. The local chief seated on a raised platform in his countryside. Actually the people there are very backward. They don’t have advanced technology and higher education. The chief and his people live in a silent peace place following their ways. They dressed in colorful robes and keep their culture. In the formal greeting ceremony, they follow their traditions without any change. Even though the gin is pretty expensive for them, they don’t care and just keep it from their ancestry. So I think is that shock me and also the author.
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“He receives visitors according to a formal ritual marked by gravity, which includes an exchange of gifts and the pouring of a libation from the visitors’ gift of costly gin drop by drop upon the ground, accompanied by solemn incantations.”
I like those words because they make me shocked. The author visited a local chief in Ghana. The local chief seated on a raised platform in his countryside. Actually the people there are very backward. They don’t have advanced technology and higher education. The chief and his people live in a silent peace place following their ways. They dressed in colorful robes and keep their culture. In the formal greeting ceremony, they follow their traditions without any change. Even though the gin is pretty expensive for them, they don’t care and just keep it from their ancestry. So I think is that shock me and also the author.
“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.”
I like these lines because this man makes me feel respectful. The man lives in a mud hut, he sleeps on the ground, he makes a livelihood by doing hard work, he only have one ceremonial dress which is only made of cheap cloth. Although he is really poor he still keep his spirit, dress formal with his custom, be proud of him self and his history. Just like an old Chinese sentence”A person can be poor, but can not live without ambition.” I think that is the reason why I respect him. He shows me the spirit from his ancestry and the ambition of life.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity."
"Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression."
I love the text that she put into her story. She is stating that she has seen black people take their generation for granted but now she's seeing that thats not happening. She has seen them mentally been beaten down and blocked by themeselves. They had no were to go.
"Unsophisticted Africans will desrcibe a male or female Negro from the United States as 'brown man', 'copper man', or sometimes 'American man'-seldom 'black man', as they desribe themeselves."
African Americans of high power feel as though they have the right to call an African American of low powere or no power at all, whateever they fell like calling them. They don't have the respect to call them by thier name or less as something thats not offensive to them. They seldomly call them black men, not knowing what else to call them. They African man would never describe themselves as cooper, or brown. So why would anyone else be able to call them something they wouldn't call themselves.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I like this quotes because it could tell me that African America felt outsider after they came back to their hometown. It had different custom and barrier language between the African America and African man, however African America seems disconnect with their own country. I feel this situation is very similar with ABC (American Born Chinese). Unfortunately, some of ABC does not know how to speak and write in Chinese and they seem lost their own culture. However, most of them were born in America where a diversity culture union had. Fortunately, I am a recent immigrant to America which still connects to my own country because I grow up there. I learned how to speak and write Chinese as well, and also know own country history and culture rather than these ABC. Satisfyingly, I study these two countries’ culture as well; I will not lose either one.
Here are my second favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. “White and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.” Why I choice this quote because it indicated white and colored American found their common identity sets them apart from Africans and Europeans, and they are counterparts which one that has the same functions and characteristics as another
What is Africa to me? A Question on Identity
One quote that I like is “The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.” I like this quote because even though she does not stay in Africa or really know who her ancestors she still considers them her people. Like for example with me I don’t consider myself black but I consider myself African American. Only because I do not act like everybody else and I like to be my own person.
Another quote I like is “My genetic heritage over several centuries has been too diverse to preserve physical characteristics identifying me with any tribal group.” I like this line because it’s a true line and I feel the same way she feels.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity."
“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.”
This man makes me feel respectful. The man lives in a mud hut, he sleeps on the ground, he makes a livelihood by doing hard work, he only has one ceremonial dress which is made of cheap cloth! even though he is really poor, he still keep his spirit, dress' formal to his custom, and he's proud of himself and his history.
my 2nd favorite quote is “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” This quote could mean that African Americans felt like outsiders after they came back to their hometown. they had different customs, and barrier language between the African American man and the African man. However, "African American" seems disconnected with their own country.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.”
African American went back to their hometown, what they think were they’re different from the people in their hometown, they way they speak, the way they dress. And they feel not the same with them; feel like they were outsiders of their hometown. But they never feel that in the United States.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” “By contrast, white and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.”
When Americans went to African, they also feel outsiders, but even they’re not African Americans, they could find out something its same with the Africans.
These are my favorite quotes from the story, "What is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity":
"I have also watched a majogony-colored young man from the United States decked out in gorgeous Nigerian robes and headdresses only to have the local Africans laugh at him and he strolled along the street. His coloring blended his American gait."
This quote shows how close minded people are in the world.Only because somebody grew up in a different environment, doesn't mean they aren't worthy of sharing the same culture and background.The Africans assume only because the guy was from America, he's not worthy of wearing their traditional clothing. I know I that I've grown up in America and I have never been to the country my family is from, and I feel like I don't want to go there because I will feel out of place, and I'm so accustomed to the American lifestyle. So I'm kind of the person that sets the stereotypes in Africa, because I'm a model of what they are thinking a typical colored American is.
"Understandably, people from the United States who were suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here, but they poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into an African environment."
I like this quote because it's telling us that only because somebody's a certain skin color,in this case brown, doesn't automatically make them an African. This quote kind of contradicts the first quote. It also shows us that it's not so easy to have your OWN people accept you because of your appearance, you have to earn their respect and show that you are connected or trying to get connected with your roots. I know if I went to my country, everybody would call me "gringa", because I have been Americanized, and even though I LOOK Latina, they will see right past that if I act as if I was born and raised in America. It really sucks!
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity."
"My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This quote connects to my life because when she says "my foreignness is evident," she is saying that she can't hide the differences between her and the people from Ghana. I felt exactly the same when I came to the United States. The differences between me and the American people were evident. As the time passed by I started loosing my Salvadorean accent. I felt as if I was betraying my Salvadorean origin. I adapted myself to the American life style but I could never loose my Salvadoren roots.
"I find that my peculiar racial historyhas made me irrevocably ann American, a product of the New Wolrd." I like this quote because it connects to my life Like Pauli Murray, when I came to the United Stated I felt more Salvadorean than ever. "A product of the Center of America." It is something I can't change. When I was in El Salvador I didn't care about my nationality at all. I think that when I was there I didn't really know that I was Salvadorean. It was here where I discovered who I am.
Here are my favorite quote from " What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity"
My favorite quote is "the young Ghananian guide who gliby racited these historic events as he led me about could not possibly know how immediate these happenings were to me or the tumultuos emotions i felt at that moment." I like this quote because the woman is expressing her anger towords what the african americans been through.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,“What is Africa to Me?—A Question of Identity.” "understandly, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not autimatically qualify one toi fit into the african environment."
this quotes shows that African American went back to the Africa but they still want to find a place that acceptable for them cause their color, hope, and something else from inside.the dark skin doesn't means anything not because their environment. go back to Africa maybe the best way to find an acceptable identity.
"when i ask myself "what is Africa to me?" i discover that without knowlege of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum."
I like this quotes because the Africa is a great place for them, not because they have the knowlege and discover something they know the Africa was a great places and also she discover who she is.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Question of Identity."
"As has happened throughout human history when people of different cultures come together in close contact. I am the result of a considerable biological intermixture as well as culture cross-fertilization."
This quote speaks to me because anyone who comes to know will begin to realize that I speak Spanish a few days after they met me. Then they start asking question like, "Are you Mexican?" I replied "No" and then I try to explain to them what I am and they begin to look at me funny because the question they will probably ask is, "You are mixed, huh?” And I also replied "No. Both of my parents are from the same country in Central America. It irritates me because they don’t understand the fact that my ancestors come from Africa and that's why I have that type of skin color and that type of hair. And since barely anyone pays attention in history class there's no point in me telling them the whole thing.
Another one of my favorite quotes from the story is "I am beginning to understand that I am the product of a new history which began on African shores but which has not been shared with Africans, a history accompanied by such radical changes in a new environment that over time it produced a new identity." Now this quote is my favorite because it makes me understand that the reason why every one thinks I come from a culture mixed family is because most of the United States population, well at least 70% to 80% are made up mixed cultures and I really understand that, but the problem is that they don’t listen so I get frustrated. But that’s O.K.!
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murry article, what is Africa to Me? A Question of identity. "We are developing a distinctively new ethnic type."
I think she means due to all the slaves that were spread though out the contents, this has developed a new ethnic type thorough out the world. Interracial dating has developed a new ethnic time trough out the world. I think there shouldn’t be racist anymore because of the ethnic variety in our world today.
"Coming back to mother Africa to see my people." She returns to Africa not knowing her ancestors or back round but still says she is going to Africa to see "my people". Even though she was born in America she calls Africa "Mother Africa". She feels close to Africa. She knows that's where all her ethnic back round lies. She says in the story she doesn’t know her people. Yet she says she coming to Africa to see her people. I think she just wants to be apart of a Africa so much she is just proud to call them al her people.
One of my favorite quotes from "Raisin In The Sun" is the following. "On the other hand i have met a white American born and reared near the swamps of Georgia who tells me he is able to eat local food, drink local water, and fare better against health hazards than his Negro friends from the northern United States because he built up an immunity to malaria and hookworm during his Georgia youth." This quote stands out to me because of what she is saying. She is saying that even though this white man is not from Africa he is able to fare better against the enviornment than actual descendents from Africa. For all we know his ancestors could have been slave traders. It strikes me as ironic because of the situation.
The other quote I chose was "I have also watghed a mahogany-colored young man from the United States decked out in gorgeouus Nigerian robes and headdress, only to have the local Africans laugh at him as he strolled along the street."
I chose this quote because i liked the meaning I saw behind it. When i read it it made me think that even if we put on a mask and pretend to be someelse people will always be able to see the truth. Both of these quotes stood out to me when i read them.
My Favorite Quote for the book "What is Afica" by Pauli Murray is "Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This is my favorite quote becuase she has seen afican people take their there heritage for granted and reallt serious. Like they haven't forgot where they came from. This quote is important becuase many people have forgot where they came from and just like me im afican but im more american than i am afican. This quote stuck out to me because its important to know where you came from and what your ancestors are and i really wish that i know whats my ancestors becuase i'll like to represent my african culture.
The next quote that i'm going to pick is “They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and custom and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I really like this quote becuase it talks about how africans americans felt like they weren't wanted in africa by their own culture becuase some of the africans felt like they abonded their heritage. African ameicans in america speak more american and we dress different and they'll just look at us like there's no point of talking to us becuase we want kno what were talking about and how it feels to live in Africa. This quote stuck out to me becuase africans americans didn't feel as welcomed as they thought. They seemed like everybody thought as if they were invisible. At last they felt like they wanted by the people of their color and that really upseted them alot.
My favorite quotes from the article "what is Africa to me?"- A question of identity,was picked personaly by me.
"A remote African ancestry about which i knew little linked with a heritage of slavery continued inferior status in America has been a source of a hidden shame." This quote to me told me that she had to find out her heritage because would feel a shamed of her self if she didnt know about her own background and she feel like she still is in slavery from living in America.
The next quote is "I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded in my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my background and my relationship to it." She is saying that she feel that she has to go to Africa to Africa to accept her heritage to accept her self fully, also to wash all her shame away.
"i was too numbed to tell the cheif that i am only two generations removed from slavery". i choose this quote because she was close to being a slave, and her grandmother was a slave and now the africans have rights. this is my favorite line because her family has been throuh a lot and because in just two generations a lot can happen. when i read this quote i felt the pain her grandmother went through having to do thing she didnt wont to.
After reading "What Is Africa to Me? - A Question of Identity" by Pauli Murray, I choose these two quotes: "They know vaguely of their "brothers who went across the sea",but their image of these "brothers" is that of black people like themselves" and "Watching the auction through peepholes were the African chiefs who were growing rich and powerful from the lucrative trade in human fresh".These words greatly surprised me because I had imagined the slave situation differently. I've always thought that Europeans were completely at fault, that they were the cruel people that sold lots of innocent Africans to slavery. I thought that the chiefs gave away their people unwillingly, and that the people who live in Africa know what happened and remember their ancestors and people of their nation who were sold into slavery. In reality it turned out that everything is different. Most Africans have vague and uncertain ideas about slavery and what really happened at that time, and African chiefs were actually partly responsible for the slavery of thousands of people. The chiefs got profit from these sales and the didn't really care about the fate of those who they sold. I think they were also cowards because they didn't have the strenght to actually sit on the auction, but they prefered to watch it thorough peepholes so that the slaves who managed to run away would never know who sold them into slavery. Also I realised that most Africans don't understand that the enslaved Africans who lived on American soil and their descendants have changed, they are no longer Africans, but African Americans: they've started thinking differently and reacting differently to situations. I found out a lot from these two quotes, and they changed my opinion about slavery in Africa.
"tell me, madame, are you english land or american lady"
this qoute stood out to me because i thought she was african but the guy is asking her if shes english. so she shouldnt be saying about her haratage when she's propper and people think shes white
i have seen a few american Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana. They have worn the Kente (the Ghanain national cloth, a brilliantly colored woven fabric),eaten the local "chop", and attempted to associate only with Ghanains." i like this quote because even though they stay in america they still do. like the wear kente cloth in america and they also eat chops.they are pretening to be something they are not like wearing the robes and eating the food only for the africans.
"projecting myself backward in to time, i tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of this agoning odeal, which marred the introctuction of africans into america." shes imaging herself in the shoes of the african americans who experience a terrorfly situation which marked the africans into america.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is africa to me? - A question of identity." " My first favorite quote is when the ghanaian man says the Pauli "Tell me madame are you english lady or are you american lady." the people in africa can see if you are african, or english, or american they can tell by the way you walk. Some african american, and african english belive they can just come to africa and just act like them but they have been changed they still have american traits, and can not change that.My next favorite quote is "What is Africa to me" this quote is my favorite quote because i am a young african american and i believe that i connect with this quote because every time i here about africa or think about my great ancestors i think about this quote. sometimes i want to forget about what happened to my ancestors in the past,but i just cant let go of it because i feel that i have a goal to go back and learn more about my ancestors. Every time africa comes up my hairs stand on end because i want to learn about ny ancestors because i really dont know a thing.I feel like i have a connection with the continent
The quotes that caught my eye in the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?- A question of identity, are: " Here again I saw the self-possession of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This quote mean that the author is seeing the kept spirits of black people that hasn't been crippled or messed with.I chose this quote because at first i didn't understand it be later got the meeting and realized its important. The next quote that was appealing to me was: "I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrowful history in the monuments to the slave trade along the West African Coast." The author is describing the buildings of the slave trade.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to Me?-Aquestion of Identity."
"After living and working here for almost a year, I find that my pecular racial history has made me irrevocably an America, a product of the new world."
I like this text because in some ways I feel connected to what it says. I was born in Mexico but only lived there for nine months of my life and the rest here, in the United States. No matter how much I say I am Mexican from Mexico there is no way I would survive there for a year. I am a total stranger there!! On the contrary, here, in the U.S i am not a stranger. It is as if I was born here. No matter how much I deny being from the U.S I am from here because all my life has been here.
"When I ask myself 'What is Africa to me?' I discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum."
To me this quote reminds me on how much immigrants (which we all are) loose in this country (and in others). Many people came here without knowing that someday their children would forget about "home" and all the traditions. Many traditions have been lost by conquerors in the past. Thousands of dialects in Mexico have been lost to spanish. That isn't the only place where many things have been erase. It's all over the world. So this quote talks to anyone.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity. This is my favor line “I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrowful history in the monuments to the slave trade along the west African coast.”
I like this line because it could tell me the history of Africa. The author saw the heavy trade of slave in West Africa. The people at her hometown don't have the right to living the place they want. One controls by local Chief to sale them to Europe and America. In that Chief point of view, one it is only an item not a person. Also Guinea in geography are surrounding by water. These businesses are very easy to transport salve to the destination.
“Understandably, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope the find an acceptable identity here, but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into the African environment. I have seen a few American Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana.” This is my favorite quotes, because it isit is that happensre in myself. As immigrant from China, everyone wants have the best adapted the America society. But the way I dress is different from American. Whatever I try, we I still Chinese. There is some Chinese American, we call them the ABC “America Born China” they are adapted this America society. Unfortunately, they can't read and write Chinese. This is other similar example like the quotes.
After reading the article by Pauli Murray "What is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity." there were somethings that she said that really caught my eye. Overall there were two quote that I liked the most.
"I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded in my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my Africen background and my relationship with it"
I choose this qoute as one of my favorites because I can relate to it by the way that I interpreted it. I can relate to it because I am half Nicaraguence and half something else and I feel "shame" it's not exaclty that but I guess you can call it that for now, for my other half. I never mention it or even care its a part of me that I always fail to mention or even think of as it being ME. Like it says in the quote I need to confront or in my case forget and ignore my past and what has happened before me and maybe this will help me better appriciate what I really am. You know just fix my relationship with it.
"Facing a vast continent of varied peopls whose appearance, language, and customs differ from my own, I am unable to conjure up some vicarious identity and can do little more than to relate to the people I meet on the basis of our common humanity"
This second quote I think tells the very truth of people nowdays. Each of us as individuals are so different and no matter what we say we are or where we say where from we are really a person of mixed cultures. I think that we shouldn't conversate with people just beacsue they are anything like us after all we are ALL humans and when it comes down to human nature we are have all the same characteristics. Culture cannot be perserved we interacte with each other (hopefully) too much to not pick up little things of others.
I guess thats it. These were my two favorite quotws after reading the article multiple times trying to find something that I found interesting.
“I haven't the slightest notion who my particular African ancestors were, what region or tribe they came from, whether they were traders, fisherfolk, herdspeople, or farmers, what their customs were or what language they spoke. “ (192)
Rather than my favorite quote, but the one which most relates to me is the one above. She doesn't have a clue who her people are, where they came from. what they look like, or anything. On my mother's side of the family, I don't know anything about them. All I know is that they are from Mexico, and they spoke Spanish. I wish I could meet them, or even see a picture of them, but I know it's not going to happen, because my own Mother doesn't have contact with them. What can I do?
"My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This is my other "favorite quote". I personally am not ashamed of being born in America, or not speaking spanish, or being in touch with my culture and all. I see English as my language, and my ways of life my culture and America as my homeland. I will always honeor my Latino hertiage and all, but I do not feel bad that I'm not a "true" Latino. America has adopted countless cultures, skin colors, religions and more in it's people. I'm proud to have had been born here.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article "What Is Africa To Me-A Question Of Identity."
"Coming back to Mother Africa to see my people" voiced by some negro visitors from the united states,cannot change this stubborn fact.america is home to me,however alienated or disinherited i have felt at times"
I like this quote because it shows that even if she hasnt gone to africa ,she still feels like a part of africa.she will be happy to see her people.she doesnt care if she feels alienated as long as shes home at Africa. i just like how she said this quote about how at home she feels .shes an americanbut that wouldnt stop her from seeing her own people.i would feel the same.i was born in the united states and i wonder how my home country looks like in Nicaragua to visit my people.this was a good quote.
"What is Africa to me?" i discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exists in a great vacuum."
I like this quote too because it says that without knowledge of her past,that Africa still reman=ins a mystery to her.i would feel the same because i wouldnt know what they were,what they do,or where they live.i maybe wouldnt know how they look.even if you look different it would br great just visiting your home country.it would be a nice journey,dicovering everything about your past,your home countryand their way of living and culture.you will be a foreign person but then the rest of your family will notice you.this is a great article.
One qoute that i liked from "What is Africa to me?--A Question of idenity"“The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.”I feel that's is true because she feels that the people from her Mother Land is her family even though she might not know them but she feels connected to them as if they stayed with them their whole life.
My second quote:
“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.”
I feel that all African American men should be like that because you shouldn't feel down because of the race and want people feel about you still hold your head up with pride.
My favorite line/quote is
"When I ask myself 'What Africa to me' I discover that without knowledge of personal antecedents the African past exist in a great vacuum." The way I interred the line/quote is that in a scenes that when they(whites looking for free labor to replace the Native Americans because they were dying off) brought use here(to work in their plantations) that they tried to strip us from our identity as Africans(soon to be referred to as Blacks or African American) but only over time we loose it. And at the time were in we have lost it. I know for me I think about what life would be like if we were never brought here? Because over the years other ethnicity have been mixed in altogether. When I read this line/quote I thought trying to trace my ancestry to find out what tribe, village, and state my ancestors came from. And to get scenes of what kind of life style my ancestors lived. So i can get a scene of my past so it dose not exist in a vacuum.
“White and colored Americans living and working in West Africa discover their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African counterparts.”
This is quite an insightful quote. Pauli describes that merely because they possess the same skin color, African-Americans automatically assume that they have some amount of brotherhood between each other, when in reality there ways of life are completely different (see quote 2). Here, African-Americans and White-Americans find their kinship not because of their appearance, but because of their fundamental American qualities - how they move,talk,act,etc.
"Here again I saw the self-possessions of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression."
Although they may not have many luxury possessions or social power, Pauli notes that even in their long history of sadness, the "African man" has a natural layer of dignity for being who they are - prideful Africans. Unlike many African-Americans,the African man does not require authority to be prideful - they have lasted, their way of life is intact, and they are united.
Here’re my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity."
My first quote is "I was too numbed to tell this chief that I am only two generations removed from slavery, that my own grandmother was born a slave, and that I had seen it's scars on her personality.” This quote made me think a lot about my ancestors and what generation number am I away from slavery if it was still going on. I couldn't imagine myself a slave I would cry each and everyday as long as I was a salve. Then I would think about getting whipped on my back with a whip for not doing something that I was not suppose to do or just being black woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I think about slavery I think what did they pick in the green fields that they grew, what they ate, what the wear. And did they have a place were they can lay there head or just being warm in a bed like I am. I also thought that someone in your family was a slave for you so the next generation didn't have to. When I see slavery taking place on movies or just TV makes me mad and thankful. It makes me mad because the women wren treated differently from the men were. Sometimes the master would have relation with the women so he can make more slaves so he can sell them or use them to his own use
My second quote is “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
Here’re my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity."
My first quote is "I was too numbed to tell this chief that I am only two generations removed from slavery, that my own grandmother was born a slave, and that I had seen it's scars on her personality.” This quote made me think a lot about my ancestors and what generation number am I away from slavery if it was still going on. I couldn't imagine myself a slave I would cry each and everyday as long as I was a salve. Then I would think about getting whipped on my back with a whip for not doing something that I was not suppose to do or just being black woman in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I think about slavery I think what did they pick in the green fields that they grew, what they ate, what the wear. And did they have a place were they can lay there head or just being warm in a bed like I am. I also thought that someone in your family was a slave for you so the next generation didn't have to. When I see slavery taking place on movies or just TV makes me mad and thankful. It makes me mad because the women wren treated differently from the men were. Sometimes the master would have relation with the women so he can make more slaves so he can sell them or use them to his own use
My second quote is “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
Here’re my favorite quote from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me? -A Question of Identity."
"I haven't the slightest notion who my particular african ancestors were, what region or tribe they came from, whether they were traders,fisherfolk, heards people, of fermers, whta their customs were or what language they spoke." This is my favorite quote/line because it kind of reminds me of me. I mean i kno for the most part were my family is from and what part. i know the basics, but i know that we're not just mexican we're either mixed with spanish or fillipino i'm just not sure which one. I want to know whether the mexican side of my family were aztecs or mayans, what their native language was, and when the culture got mixed. I have so many questions and like her i feel like i should know more but it's not that easy to find out. I really do feel connected with this quote the way she wants to learn more about her self and her culture.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, "What is Africa to me?-A Question of Identity."
"My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin." This quote connects to my life because when she says "my foreignness is evident," she is saying that she can't hide the differences between her and the people from Ghana. I felt exactly the same when I came to the United States. The differences between me and the American people were evident. As the time passed by I started loosing my Salvadorean accent. I felt as if I was betraying my Salvadorean origin. I adapted myself to the American life style but I could never loose my Salvadoren roots.
"I find that my peculiar racial historyhas made me irrevocably ann American, a product of the New Wolrd." I like this quote because it connects to my life Like Pauli Murray, when I came to the United Stated I felt more Salvadorean than ever. "A product of the Center of America." It is something I can't change. When I was in El Salvador I didn't care about my nationality at all. I think that when I was there I didn't really know that I was Salvadorean. It was here where I discovered who I am.
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“They have emerged as individual’s who my be kind or cruel, honest or thievish
Industrious or lazy arrogant or gentle as the case may be.”
What it means is…
Every one has there own differences. Every one doesn’t fell the same way as every one else. But still every one should be treated the same way as any one else would be treated, with the same respect, responsibility punishments, and all rules and all rites should be given to everyone. Rather your white, black, Latino, chines, japans, Irish or any other race, every one is human that deserve to have rites.
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"I tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of organizing ordeal, which marked the introduction of Africans in America."
I think It means that her confusion about were destination there heading to but projecting herself backward in time, I guess she wasn't know what's going to happen to her.
"I find that my peculair racial history has made me irrevocably an Amrican, a product of the new world."
I guess it means that she forgot her culture and race. She made her an American. Her racial history to a another culture made her irrevocably, so this quote tells to her African American.
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“They have emerged as individual’s who my be kind or cruel, honest or thievish
Industrious or lazy arrogant or gentle as the case may be.”
What it means is…
Every one has there own differences. Every one doesn’t fell the same way as every one else. But still every one should be treated the same way as any one else would be treated, with the same respect, responsibility punishments, and all rules and all rites should be given to everyone. Rather your white, black, Latino, chines, japans, Irish or any other race, every one is human that deserve to have rites.
"His colorings blended with his human surroundings but he could not conceal american gait". In the story they said that the african men can pick out an american walking along th street from a distinctive relaxed hip movement. Also, they've watched a mohagany colored man from the United States decked out in gorgeous Nigerian robes and headdress,only to have the local Africans laugh at him as he strolled along the street. This made me feel like it was wrong that the Africans laughed at him just because he was an American and tried to dress like an African.It doesn't really matter if someone tries to dress the way they dress in Afica because at least he has the spirit of an African.he may havce blended in because of his skin color but the Africans knew anyways because of the way he walked.
"My foreigness is evident in my physical appearance and in me bearing, betraying my American origin". As this has happened throughout human history when people of differnt cultures have come together in close contact,I am the result of the considerable biological cross-fertilization." This means that he is obvios that he is a foreigner from the United States by the way he looks. I think that it may be easy to know if someone is foreign but you should still accept them as one of your own.He couldn't hide the fact that he's from an American origin.
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“These experiences have left me deeply shaken”
What it means is…
She is confused because when she went to Africa to find her roots she found something completely different. She found out that Africans have been through a lot and they work tremendously hard to eat, have a house, feed there kids and just survive in Africa. The things they do in one day are things she wouldn’t think of doing. She feels she is not worth enough to call her self an African.
"Here again I saw the self-possesion of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression"
The author sees that there dreams havent been trampled over these generations. She also sees that they all have pride in themselves.
This quote stuck out to me because I thought that it there dreams would have been crushed through all those bad times they had to go through. But it shows how they all kept together during slavery.
"They have worn the Kente, eaten tthe local "chop" and attempted to associate only with Ghanains. In time, they have quietly discontinued the local dress and little by little returned to American-sponsored functions.They have wound up with digestive disorders and related ailments."
I like this qoute because it says how you can't jus walk into a different enviornment and adapt to it quickly, then try to go back to your old enviornment.
"Here again I saw the self-possesion of black people whose spirits have not been crippled by generations of repression"
The author sees that there dreams havent been trampled over these generations. She also sees that they all have pride in themselves.
This quote stuck out to me because I thought that it there dreams would have been crushed through all those bad times they had to go through. But it shows how they all kept together during slavery.
"They have worn the Kente, eaten tthe local "chop" and attempted to associate only with Ghanains. In time, they have quietly discontinued the local dress and little by little returned to American-sponsored functions.They have wound up with digestive disorders and related ailments."
I like this qoute because it says how you can't jus walk into a different enviornment and adapt to it quickly, then try to go back to your old enviornment.
"I came to Africa, among other reasons, to see for myself black people in their own homeland and come to grips with the pervasive myth of innate racial inferiority that stigmatizes all people of discernable African descent in the United States."
I like this quote because it shows that she was determine to find her real identity. She wanted to know how it feels like to be an African. She wants to know how people live their lives. She went back to Africa to learn about their culture. She tries to compare the life of being in the United States and Africa.
"What is Africa to me?"
She is asking herself what does really Africa means to her. She wants to know if she's really an African or American. She is confuse about her own identity. She think of herself as an African, but she is still an American.
"unsophisticated AFricans will describe male or female Negro from the united states as brown man copper man or sometimes America man seldom black man as they describe themselves"
This is how people describe each other and how they feel
" American backgrond without ambivalence and return to my country with renewed determination to claim my heritage"
She is happy she learn about her heritage
One quote that I like is “The romantic notion of ‘coming back to Mother Africa to see my people’ voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.” I like this quote because even though she does not stay in Africa or really know who her ancestors are she still considers them as her people. And thats why i love this quote because consider that all blacks came from Africa. Just Becaus you were born in America or the US dont mean that you originated here. And the last qoute that i like in the story is "I may overhear the word nigger when i pass some white kid,"says Ray Jr.,"but it's not directed at me." That quote tells me that anyone can call someone out of there name,but mainly black are called niggas just because are past heritage.
One of my favorite quotes from the story"What is Africa to Me"is "I am beginning to understand that I am the start of a new history that began on African shores."
I think this quote means that she is beginning to realize where her roots form and what her background and heritage are about.She is beginning to notice why life is the way it is and how people in the Americas and this time period have a great glamorous life and should be greatful.
Another one of my favorite quotes is "Even if my tawny color did not make me stand out from the masses of black Africans my unconscious movements reveal my origins."
I think this quote is saying that because of her pale brown skin color she didn't fit in but as she got use to it her obvious actions made her true self and her roots stand out and show.
"i tried to feel the bewilderment the anguish and the terror of this agonizing ordeal" This quote is talking about that this person is upset, and scard, sad, mad,crazy
"i realize the extent to which many africans themsevles participated in the slave trade" the quote is saying that during the slave trade that black people was slaves and that black people didnt like white black peolpe so didnt like they on color.
This are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article “What is Africa to me-A question of identity?” "Understandably, people from the United States who were suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptable identity here, but they poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into an African environment." I like this quote because is telling us that not only because the skin of color of somebody is a certain color in this case black, it doesn’t mean he or she is from Africa, and that the Africans Americans that are in the United State and have problems with their identity could go to Africa to find out but it’s not 100 percent that they will find it they could found hope color but maybe they won’t found their identity.
And this one, "I was too numbed to tell the cheif that I am only two generations removed from slavery", when she says this she was scared because she could had been one of them and like her grandma and her mother too.
"Tell me, Madame, are you English lady or American lady?"
I like this quote because in their time America blacks were usually put down as if they were something different then that whites but in africa they can tell if somone is American by the little things in which we all share like our walk the way we talk and other things.
"By contrast, white and colored Americans living and working in West Africa dicovery their kinship, feel outsiders together, and often find themselves seeking out one another in preference to their European or African couterparts"
This quote shows that we have more in common than we let our selfs see. and also that if we did go to another country to find our "ansesters" we would probaly still find the rejections we still had at home but worse than before
Here are my favorite quotes from the article What Is Africa to Me?-A Question of Identity "I am beginning to understand that im a product of a new history which began on African shores but which has not been shared by Africans."
I get where she is coming from and understand that African-American people originally came from the shores of Africa but never really been there and dont really know much about the country.The other quote i really like is "I need to confront the vestiges of shame embedded im my identity by making an on-the-spot assessment of my African background and my relationship to it."I also get where she is coming from because even though I'm originally from Africa I never been there or know a lot about it.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Puali Murray article "What is Africa to Me?- A Question of Identity.
"I tried to feel the bewilderment, the anguish, and the terror of this agonigizing ordeal, which markedthe introduction of Africa into America."
I feel that this quote means is that the author feels that she is trying to feel the same feeling of her ancestors.
"I saw evidence of the break with the past and the beginnings of a new and sorrow history in the monuments to the slave trade along the West African coast."
I feel that this quote means that the author had the evidence of her ancestors being sold as slaves and she is discribing how it feels to her.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,"What is afica to me?-A question of indentity".
Understandably,people from the united states who have suffered so many indignities because of the color of there skin hope to find and acceptable indentity here(afica).I like this comment because people do think just cause there colored skin they automatically qualify one to fit in an afican environment. Reality is People have tried to dress,eat and act like afican but somehow always returned to there american ways.You have to no more about the people and there culture to fit in not just because the color of your skin.
My second favorite quote is particularly because african ancestry is associated with cruel rejection in america findind themselves aliens in afica is a severe jolt to those who come expecting instant acceptance from their "afican brothers".Reality is when they come to afica they are shut off from the massess of people by barriers of language and customs and feel like an outsider in a way they never felt in the united states.They find that they are more accepted in the united states then around people that look just like them.In the united states there all american and have more in common then with each other then with people that look just like them but are from a whole different country.They hope to find acceptance but never acually do.These quotes teach me alot.
Here are my favorite quotes from the story “What is Africa To me?-A Question of identity
“This great slave-trading fort of the Gulf of Guinea was built originally by the Portuguese in the 1481, was captured by the Dutch in 1637, and eventually felt on the eighteenth century”. This quote is very important to me because it tells me how and who built the slave-trade. The Portuguese actually built it until the other colonies started to take over. Although the English colonies ended up with it last.
“I had to follow in my imagination the movement of the captives as I walked through the dark, muggy dungeons, tunnel-shaped rooms, and small courtyards where they were stored awaiting shipments; I retraced their footsteps as they were herded along the black new ethnic type’, and suggests that the physical stamina and adaptive qualities of this type are due to “hybrid vigor”. This quote is important to me because the author describes the way that the slaves lived when they were getting ready to be shipped to the Americans. Its describing the courtyards , and the tunnel shaped rooms .
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?-A question of identity.” My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin. I choose this quote because it is explaining about he physical appearance or the way she is. This quote makes me feel proud of my race that is different than her, but in the same way. She said that her culture and her race is evident in her physical appearance and it doesn’t matter if she come from Arica, she feels herself as a American. “I find that my peculiar racial history has made me irrevocable an American, a product of the new world.” My connections to this quote are that I live in the U.S. and I feel myself as a Mexican because my history has made me that way. This quote says the true because I think that someone who is educated in a different culture and has others origins will feel and identified in the culture that was educated. This quote sticks out to me because I feel like her in this country because I’m a irrevocable Mexican and this is not my culture.
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article, “What is Africa to Me?-A question of identity.” My foreignness is evident in my physical appearance and in my bearing, betraying my American origin. I choose this quote because it is explaining about he physical appearance or the way she is. This quote makes me feel proud of my race that is different than her, but in the same way. She said that her culture and her race is evident in her physical appearance and it doesn’t matter if she come from Arica, she feels herself as a American. “I find that my peculiar racial history has made me irrevocable an American, a product of the new world.” My connections to this quote are that I live in the U.S. and I feel myself as a Mexican because my history has made me that way. This quote says the true because I think that someone who is educated in a different culture and has others origins will feel and identified in the culture that was educated. This quote sticks out to me because I feel like her in this country because I’m a irrevocable Mexican and this is not my culture.
What is Africa to me?-A question of Identity.
1st QUOTE:
"I have seen a few American Negroes exerting great effort to merge with the local population of Ghana. They have worn the Kente (the Ghanaian National cloth, a brilliantly colored woven Fabric), Eaten the local "chop," and attempted to associate only with Ghanaians.
2nd QUOTE:
"The romantic notion of coming back to Mother Africa to see my people voiced by some Negro visitors from the United States cannot change this stubborn fact.."
The first quote reminds me of when i go to my country El Salvador, that when i go over there, people over there see me differently. The clothing is way different than an American girl like me. I try to fit in but somehow they all don' accept it only because i wasn't born there. I talk exactly like them with the accent and everything but they don't accept me either way and it pisses me off but my family over there isn't like that so i don't have to worry about home in El Salvador.
The second quote because she is confused. She doesn't really know who her ancestors where but she still had considered them her people. I don't know who my ancestors are but i know where i come from. My roots are Guatemalan. But when there was a war there my great grandma moved to El Salvador with all her children and from there was when my uncles and aunties and my parents where born. So when people ask me where I'm from i only say El Salvador.
My 1st qoute that caught my eye was:“African man may house his family in a mud hut, sleep on the ground, barely make a living scrabbling in parched earth, and have only one ceremonial cloth of cheap fabric. Yet when he drapes his toga about his shoulder and comes to greet a stranger, he walks with such self-assurance that I cannot help thinking how his proud bearing contrasts with the bearing of his sharecropper counterparts I have seen in rural America.” I think it means you don't need to have alot to get by and be proud of it,but be proud of how you get by with nothing.
My 2nd qoute is:“They are shut off from the masses of people by barriers of language and customs and feel like outsiders in a way they never felt in the United States.” I know that is,When I was seven years old and went to my country I had no idea what anyone said in spanish until I was ten.
My 3rd qoute is:"After living and working here for almost a year, I find that my pecular racial history has made me irrevocably an American, a product of the new world." I think assimilating to a new custom can overwrite the old-self and drastically change that person.
My 4th qoute is:"Here again I saw the self-possesions of black people whose sprits have not been crippled by generations of repression." This really stood out to me because it shows how strong people can be.
charnell said...
my first quote is..... what is africa to me?
the romantic motion of coming back to mother africa see my people voiced by some negro visitors from the united states cannot change this stubborn fact.
i as being myself am not ashamed of where i come from or myself. my culture family and friends will stay together and be apart of me and my life.
My favorite quotes from the article "what is Africa to me?"- A question of identity,was picked personaly by me.
"A remote African ancestry about which i knew little linked with a heritage of slavery continued inferior status in America has been a source of a hidden shame." This quote to me told me that she had to find out her heritage because would feel a shamed of her self if she didnt know about her own background and she feel like she still is in slavery from living in America. And I fell the same way because they say we are free but we still have a million and 1 rules. I say the only thing we have is freedom of speach,
hello peers& mr.e The reason why i picked this qoute is because i like my culture and someday i will like to visit it someday. My favorite qote is.... what is africa to me because it also reminds me of all the hard work my ancestors been through such as in the story when she said it to herself....by the way alot of african americans today actually dont know a thing about their culture because still today blacks are acting like they dont have any sense when everyone knows blacks are very intellegence even though they dont act like it. that's why its good to know every little thing about your culture because the way they struggling back home is a mess imean something terriable if it wasent possiable of our ancestors then we probably would be doing the same horriable they are going through rite now!!!! so from my oppion that's good books and stories are being brought up on our cultures today. ~thats the end of that so ima leave it at that~
Here are my favorite quotes from the Pauli Murray article,” “What is Africa to Me-A question of identity. “These experiences have left me deeply shaken” Well this quote was good because I like the way it sounded, and it also had some feelings to it. The reason why I really like this quote is because I experienced some feeling when somebody told me something like that.
Heres my other quote "i was too numbed to tell this cheif that iam only generous removed from siavery" well i like this quote because the blacks was trying to get removed from slavery.This mean to me that they was trying there best to get out of slavery.and they didnt want to be in slavery period.
"I came to Africa, among other reasons, to see for myself black people in their own homeland and to come to grips with the pervasive myth of innate racial inferiority..." I like this quote because it reminds me of myself.
The reason why is because she is happy to see people of her own culture and I also get happy when I see my culture and I see the same culture as me.
"These experiences have left me deeply shaken, perhaps as much by the casual manner in which facts of the slave trade are related without emberresment or feeling as by the facts themselves."
when I go to places where all my people are I am amazed that they are not emberrased of the fact how poor some can be over their and how the Spanish came and be a oart of our culture.
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"Understandably, people from the United States who have suffered so many indignities because of their color hope to find an acceptably identity here, but the poignant reality is that a dark skin does not automatically qualify one to fit into the African environment."
In this quote the Lady is talking about that its hard to fit in a black environment, they also was humiliated because of the color of their skin.
MY FAVORITE QUOTE IS..
"I had to follow my imangination, the movement of the capitives as i walked through the dark"
I CHOOSE THIS QUTE BECAUSE..
I think it maens she was probaly scared and thought that something was going to happen to her.So she had to trust in herself as she was walking with the fear in her.So she was like she dont want to become a prisoner because it probaly happend to her family members and maybe she think she is noxt so thats why she was terroffied and probaly horrified.
MY OTHER FAVORITE QUOTE IS..
"I was too numbed to tell this chief that i am only generations removed from slaverys"
I CHOOSE THIS QUOTE BECAUSE..
Her grandma was a slave and i can see her suffering from her grandma,and that he was scared because
#1:: “Tropical Africans, for whom American is little more than a legend (or a political weapon), would hardly understand the shock I felt listening to a local chief tell how his great-grandfather and his grandfather used to catch and sell slaves, and how his grandfather often wondered what happened to those he sold.” This quote made me upset because I couldn’t believe it, they caught and sold their own people. I bet that the grandfather felt guilty that him and the great-grandfather had done I would feel the same way that she felt about what she had heard. The chief should feel ashamed for what he had told them. I think that’s terrible thing that they did. If I did something like that it will hunt me for the rest of my life and I can’t have that on my conch ants. I could never do that to a human beam that would just be cruel, mean and hurtful towards them and their families.
“He receives visitors according to a formal ritual marked by gravity, which includes an exchange of gifts and the pouring of a libation from the visitors’ gift of costly gin drop by drop upon the ground, accompanied by solemn incantations.”
I like those words because they make me shocked. The author visited a local chief in Ghana. The local chief seated on a raised platform in his countryside. Actually the people there are very backward. They don’t have advanced technology and higher education. The chief and his people live in a silent peace place following their ways. They dressed in colorful robes and keep their culture. In the formal greeting ceremony, they follow their traditions without any change. Even though the gin is pretty expensive for them, they don’t care and just keep it from their ancestry. So I think is that shock me and also the author.
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