Most of the Pyramids were observatories in perfect alignment. Some Pyramids were aligned so that the sun would hit them at a certain time of the year. And yet, it could rain all year, and not a drop of rain could get inside. No one covered the hole. So that took some high intelligence to line a thing up so that the exact time of year when the sun was in the exact position, it would light up the inside of that crypt.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.

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.