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

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

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.

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