Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.
I once wrote that Black Americans are involved in an intriguing experiment to see if an oppressed minority can continue to march forward if there is not a strong and vibrant left-wing and radical movement. That's not an experiment I would recommend, although the story is still unfolding and we will see how it unfolds, but they are not the sort of conditions in which an oppressed minority should have to struggle.
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.
I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.
Love not Pleasure; love God.
We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
We may not need God to tell us where the world came from, but we need God to be able to live moral lives and for there to be morality in the first place.