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 question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.