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.

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

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

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.

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.