Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.