Human history in essence is the history of ideas....

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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.