In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

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

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

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