Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

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.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.