My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

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

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.