You know, with your interest in the often clashing cultures of African and European Americans, it might be interesting to consider how much our understand of thought, cognition, rationality has been shaped by a particularly warped, modern Protestant-based (ie Germanic!) view of the mind.

Catholics, Africans, Asians, and well, just about everyone else on the planet understands the essential need for "thought" to be integrated with emotion/sensation/intuition/imagination.

Jean Gebser calls the modern structure of consciousness that of the "deficient mental" structure. Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist considers it the most important crisis to be resolved to bring back intuition as the fundamental basis of our experience. And not merely "mental" intuition but bodily and heart-based intuition as well (he even dares speak of the soul but I'll leave that for now).