Kwame Anthony Appiah
1954
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Biography
Kwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-American philosopher, writer, and cultural theorist. He was born in London in 1954 to a Ghanaian father and a British mother, and grew up both in Ghana and England. Appiah is known for his work in moral and political philosophy, focusing on issues of identity, ethnicity, and globalization. He has written extensively on ethics, cosmopolitanism, and the role of religion in society. Appiah is a professor at New York University and has received numerous awards for his contributions to philosophy and literature.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the doors in the house, in fact.
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There's no area of the world in which most people look like me. But they do look like me in Africa.
3
Identity is not as transparent or unchanging as we would like to think.
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The soundest generalizations about the people of Africa today are that they are diverse and that they are changing fast.
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We are much more alike than we are different.