Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

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

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.