There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on ...

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

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.