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.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

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

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.