There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

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.