I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

All life is a test one way or the other.

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

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.