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

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

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

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

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.