A Quote by Malachi Kirby

Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.

Malachi Kirby

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Malachi Kirby
English - Actor
Born: September 20, 1989

When I was in school, my first acknowledgement of 'Roots' was Kunta Kinte.

Malachi Kirby

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

Malachi Kirby

Suddenly, I was interesting to girls. I wasn't just a Kunta Kinte.

Rob Pilatus

Playing Kunta Kinte is an emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental journey.

Malachi Kirby

Kunta Kinte is NOT an American, and he utterly rejects that idea at every turn.

Rege-Jean Page

I was thinking, 'What is it about Kunta Kinte that allowed him to live such a long life?' For me, what came down to it was his spirit and his knowledge of self.

Malachi Kirby

One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.

Malachi Kirby

Kunta Kinte's strength derives from the knowledge of where he comes from, but it struck me that I don't know where I come from. I understand that my last name is Kirby, that I was born in London, third-generation Jamaican, and at some point along the line, that name was changed. I didn't know my history past my grandparents.

Malachi Kirby

I love a lot of these older actresses, like Cicely Tyson, who played Kunta Kinte's mother in 'Roots.' She was really great, and I like seeing her because every movie she plays, she plays a strong character. As a kid, she was really inspiring to me.

Keke Palmer

The two lines from 'Roots' that stick out to me are, 'You no more in Africa. You in America now,' and what I said after Kunta escaped: 'What is it like to be free, Kunta? It must be something.'

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I heard someone's playing hooky,' Zach told me. He smiled. Standing there, it felt almost like nothing bad had ever happened- or would ever happen again 'There's a boy in my life,' I told him. 'He's a very bad influence.' Then Zach nodded. 'Bad boys have a way of doing that. But they're worth it.

Ally Carter

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

Tiger Woods

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

Norman Lear

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

George R. R. Martin

Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'

Muhammad Ali

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

Susanna Kaysen

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