I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.

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.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

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.