Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

Whoever the Lord is, he'd give us a facility. He's given you hands, legs and might so you use that facility to rise above the lowly status. Failing that, he gave you two good legs, just run like hell.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.