The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

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

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.