Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

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

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

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.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.