“Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-orient...” — John Henrik Clarke Quote

“Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.”

“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”

“A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.”

“Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.”

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.”

“There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.”

“When I see a young girl, I can see why you would be attracted if you were a man. I remember when it was like that for me, too, and it was nice.”

“I'm not attracted to expensive things.”

“I am attracted to bad people because they are very human.”

“After college, I did a bunch of different jobs - taught English in Mexico, worked in public radio, worked for a web design company - but there was something about documentaries that really attracted me.”

“I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.”