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. – John Henrik Clarke

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. – Richard M. Nixon

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the masters master, the genius of the age. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel