I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

Most of the Pyramids were observatories in perfect alignment. Some Pyramids were aligned so that the sun would hit them at a certain time of the year. And yet, it could rain all year, and not a drop of rain could get inside. No one covered the hole. So that took some high intelligence to line a thing up so that the exact time of year when the sun was in the exact position, it would light up the inside of that crypt.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.