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

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.