In a matrilineal society, a woman has basic rights that no one has to grant her but you can't take it away from her because the society is based on the concept that the lifegiver is equal to those she gave the life to. And that will remain... until you find a pregnant man.

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 have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

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.