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.

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

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

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.