Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.