Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.