Ivan van Sertima quotes

  • I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

  • Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.

  • How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

  • Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

  • In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

  • The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

  • Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

  • ... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy self, is squeamishly unpalatable to me.

  • Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

  • Facts are God’s native tongue.