Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

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 make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

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

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.