"History, like science, is an open book. Anybody can study physics and chemistry, no matter where you come from. The same thing should be true to humanity and social sciences. You know I think it is ridiculous to say that only English can study Shakespeare, at least, that is unacceptable to me. Someone from Burma should be able to understand Shakespeare as much as anyone else. In this country in the 1960s, when African American history came to studied professionally, there are some people who think only African Americans can do African American history."