The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.

You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

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.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.