If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.