Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

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.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.