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.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

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

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.