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

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

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

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

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

...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.

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.