My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.