Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They don't stop having special Jewish holidays. Why can't we understand that we can have things special to us and still comingle and integrate with others.

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.

All life is a test one way or the other.

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.