Cheikh Anta Diop

Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilization.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Instead of presenting itself to history as an insolvent debtor, that Black world is the very initiator of the "western" civilization flaunted before our eyes today.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Pythagorean mathematics, the theory of the four elements of Thales of Miletus, Epicurean materialism, Platonic idealism, Judaism, Islam, and modern science are rooted in Egyptian cosmogony and science.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Contrary to the legend, the Negro king was not, and had never been, a despot with unlimited powers. ... His mission was to serve the people wisely and his authority depended on his respect for the established constitution.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Already during the Middle Ages, the memory of a Negro Egypt that had civilized the world had been blurred by ignorance of the antique tradition hidden in libraries or buried under ruins. It would become even more obscure during those four centuries of slavery.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

The Europeans looked down on the Black world and condescended to touch nothing but its riches.

— Cheikh Anta Diop