When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

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

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.