The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude towards Afrika becomes more positive, your understanding of and attitude towards yourself will also becomes more positive...

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.