"If you know that I have a history, you will respect me."~Black Indian Student

"The thesis that Africa is what Western European missionaries, traders, technicians and administrators have made it is comforting to Western Europeans, but invalid. "

The beneficiaries of slavery were those in power, not the ones who suffered under its weight.

There is no greater serenity of mind than when one can shut the hectic noise and pace of the materialistic outside world, & seek inner peace within oneself.~Malcolm X

Sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

To attempt a presentation of Negro history , or indeed of African/and or black history, in so small a volume is to undertake an impossible task, yet it is a task that must be attempted. J.C. DeGraft-Johnson

“Teamwork makes the dream work.”

1 in 6 Caucasian people support reparations

I’m not saying I’m going to rule the world or I’m going to change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world ~Tupac Shakur

“ I think that the pilgrimage to Mecca broadened my scope probably more in twelve days than my previous experience during my thirty-nine years on this earth.”

~Malcom X, the Barry Gray Show July 11, 1964

“Stories are the accounts of past events in someone’s life or in the evolution of something.”

"Every culture has contributed to math just as it has contributed to literature.  It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone."

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel, but who?

~Isaac Asimov

Black History is American History

"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."

"Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.~Derrick Bell

History is written with prejudices, likes and dislikes, there has never been a white historian who ever wrote with any true love or feeling for the Negro~Marcus Garvey