we came before columbus.

"it is in contradiction to the most elementary logic and to all artistic experience that an indian could depict in a mastery way the head of an [Afrikan] without missing a single racial characteristic, unless he had actually seen such a person. the types of people depicted must have lived in america... the [Afrikan] element is well proven by large olmec stone monuments as well as the terracotta items and therefore cannot be excluded from the pre-columbian history of the americas.

--alexander von wuthenau, the art of terracotta pottery in pre-columbian south and central america

*excerpted from "they came before columbus" by ivan van sertima, pg.21