I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
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.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.