If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

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

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

If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be ruling Spain to this day because that's the institution that held them together. The institute that gave them the only hope was their church. This is why we are so depressed because the institutions of hope that would cause fulfillment amongst us has either been destroyed or laughed at.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.