If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

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.

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

I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.