You shouldn't bear humiliations.

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.

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.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

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.