We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

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.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.