You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.

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

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

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.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

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