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.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

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

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.