“I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home. I’ve been away for four hundred years, but not of my own volition, not of my own will. Our people didn’t go to America on the Queen Mary, we didn’t go by Pan American, and we didn’t go to America on the Mayflower. We went in slave ships, we went in chains. We weren’t immigrants to America, we were cargo for purposes of a system that was bent upon making a profit…..When I was in Ibadan at the University of Ibadan last Friday night, the students there gave me a new name….. “Omowale,” which they say means in Yoruba…. ‘The child has returned'”.
– Malcolm X at the University of Ghana, Legon, on May 13, 1964
Happy Birthday, Malcolm! You would be 91 today! Admire you for how you turned your life around!