All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.
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.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.
With love one can live even without happiness.
I'm going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care.