At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers and at its worst an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

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.

Before anything else we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth justice freedom and reason.