Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

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.

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

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

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.