Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who...
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when...
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other...
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great...
A great wind swept over the ghetto carrying away shame invisibility and...
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for...