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.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

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

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

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

When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.