Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.