"We were Black Americans in West Africa, where for the first time in our lives the color of our skin was accepted as correct and normal." Section 1 (pages 3-32), pg. 3

"Was it possible that I and all American Blacks had been wrong on other occasions? Could the cutting treatment we often experienced have been stimulated by something other than our features, our hair and color? Was the odor of old slavery so obvious that people were offended and lashed out at us automatically? Ha what we judged as racial prejudice less to do with race and more to do with our particular ancestors' bad luck at having been caught, sold and driven like beasts?" Section 2 (pages 32-58), pg. 35

"That they had missed our clearly made points boded well for them. They just might succeed in their search for the illusive Africa, which secreted itself when approached directly, like...