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.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

You should not bear insults.

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

People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.