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.

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

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

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.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact