Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.