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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…

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in…
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that…
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of…
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains…
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that… — John Henrik Clarke
Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years… — Louis Agassiz
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the… — Wes Jackson
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they… — Carson McCullers
I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever. — Chelsea Handler
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking… — Jean Baudrillard
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was.… — Hermann Hesse
In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Marriage is not only the beginning of a realtionship but also the end of a life long search for the other half… — Superman
The kiss, a sweet discovery of oneself after a long search. — Nikhil Saluja

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