...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.

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.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

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.

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