My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

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.

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.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.