Attending Church Is One Thing, Belonging Is

If You Expect The Present Day School System To Give History To You, You Are Dreaming. This, We Have To Do Ourselves. The Chinese Didn't Go Out In The World And Beg People To Teach Chinese Studies Or Let Them Teach Chinese Studies. The Japanese Didn't Do That Either. People Don't Beg Other People To Restore Their History; They Do It Themselves.

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.

There Has Been A Struggle To Reclaim The African Self. That Struggle Has Been On The Part Of A Minority Of Dedicated African-americans Who Never Gave Up Our African Identity At No Time During Our Stay Here.

When I Was Able To Go To School In My Early Years, My Third Grade Teacher, Ms. Harris, Convinced Me That One Day I Would Be A Writer. I Heard Her, But I Knew That I Had To Leave Georgia, And Unlike My Friend Ray Charles, I Did Not Go Around With 'georgia On My Mind.'

There Was A Time When All Dark-skinned People Were Called Ethiopians, For The Greeks Referred To Africa As, 'the Land Of The Burnt-face People.'