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.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

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

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.