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.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

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

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.