"Read history incessantly until you master it. This means your own national history, the history of the world, social history, industrial history, and the history of the different sciences; but primarily the history of man. If you do not know what went on before you came here and what is happening at the time you live, but away from you, you will not know the world and will be ignorant of the world and mankind." - Marcus Mosiah Garvey

"The true African historian must be on a relentless search for truth and must not tremble with fear when that trust is contrary to what one would prefer to believe." --Chancellor Williams

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history, Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster......The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Milan Kundera

"Whoever controls the images, controls your self-esteem, self-respect and self-development. Whoever controls the history, controls the vision." - Dr. Leonard Jeffries

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history"- Martin Luther King

"We have no analysis of our history because we have no memory of our history"- Dr Asa. Hilliard

"We are satisfied to know that our race gave the first great civilization to the world; and, for centuries Africa, our ancestral home, was the great seat of learning; and when black men, who were only fit then for the company of the gods, were philosophers, artists, scientists and men of vision and leadership, the people of other races were groping in savagery, darkness and continental barbarism." - Marcus Garvey

‎"Without the African connection, we are a disjointed people begging for entry into somebody else's house." --John Henrik Clarke"

"First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning." - Honorable Elijah Muhammad

"To illuminate our real African History, to clarify our African Present, to brilliantly project our African Future."
- Mama Kefa Nephthys

"History is a clock people use to tell their historical culture and political time of the day. It's a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The history tells them where they have been, where they are and what they are. But most importantly history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be" - Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"When you deal with the past, you're dealing with history, you're dealing actually with the origin of a thing. When you know the origin, you know the cause It's impossible for you and me to have a balanced mind in this society without going into the past, because in this particular society, as we function and fit into it right now, we're such an underdog, we're trampled upon, we're looked upon as almost nothing. Now if we don't go into the past and find out how we got this way, we will think that we were always this way. And if you think that you were always in the condition that you're in right now, it's impossible for you to have too much confidence in yourself, you become worthless, almost nothing. But when you go back into the past and find out where you once were, then you will know that you once had attained a higher level, had made great achievements, contributions to society, civilization, science, and so forth. And you know that if you once did it you can do it again; you automatically get the incentive, the inspiration and the energy necessary to duplicate what our forefathers did." - Malcolm X

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X

"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

"Family, I do not think that it is enough for Black people to talk about all of the terrible things that white people have done to us without devoting at least an equal amount of time talking about how to empower ourselves to prevent such things from happening." - Runoko Rashidi

"The Negro can be made proud of his past only by approaching it scientifically himself and giving his own story to the world. what others have written about the Negro during the last three centuries has been mainly for the purpose of bringing him where he is today and holding him there." - Cater G. Woodson, The Miseducation of the Negro.

"True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages." - Great Temple of Karnak

"Merely by describing yourself as Black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your Blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being." - Steve Biko

"Change your mind, your consciousness and change your circumstances. See your consciousness in terms of its Afrikaness, its life enhancing benefits, its consequences for your survival and goals as a people, measured in terms of its characteristics, what it must acquire. You must have certain intentions to do this." - Amos Wilson