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

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a clown or a boxer. And there is no lasting value in either one of those.

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.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.