We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

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

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

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