The First Light Of Human Consciousness And

My Daddy Wanted Me To Be A Farmer; Feel The Smoothness Of Alabama Clay And Become One Of The First Blacks In My Town To Own Land. But, I Was Worried About My History Being Caked With That Southern Clay, And I Subscribed To A Different Kind Of Teaching And Learning In My Bones And In My Spirit.

I Understood That My Family Was Rich In Love But Would Probably Never Own The Land My Father, John, Dreamed Of Owning. My Mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, Was A Washerwoman For Poor White Folks In The Area Of Columbus, Georgia Where The Writer Carson Mccullers Once Lived.

I Will Only Debate With My Equals. All Others I Teach.

You Have To Convince The Adults That If A Child Is To Learn His Culture, He Or She Will Have To See His Mother And Father Reading About It, And Explaining It To Him. Then It Gets A Legitimacy It Otherwise Would Never Have. Until Then, His Learning Is Limited.

In Order To Have A Charismatic Leader, You Have To Have A Charismatic Program. Because If You Have A Charismatic Program, Then If You Can Read You Can Lead. When The Leader Gets Killed While You're Reading From Page 13 Of Your Charismatic Program, You Can Bury The Man With Honors, Then Continue The Plan By Reading From Page 14. Let's Keep On.