You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.
Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.
This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
You shouldn't bear humiliations.
You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.
My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.
I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.
The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.
The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.
Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.
I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
