A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

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

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

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

Most of the Pyramids were observatories in perfect alignment. Some Pyramids were aligned so that the sun would hit them at a certain time of the year. And yet, it could rain all year, and not a drop of rain could get inside. No one covered the hole. So that took some high intelligence to line a thing up so that the exact time of year when the sun was in the exact position, it would light up the inside of that crypt.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.