What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

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.

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

All life is a test one way or the other.