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.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

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.

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.