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John Henrik Clarke

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
— John Henrik Clarke good
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
— John Henrik Clarke time
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
— John Henrik Clarke religion
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
— John Henrik Clarke people
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
— John Henrik Clarke people
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
— John Henrik Clarke religion
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
— John Henrik Clarke reality
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
— John Henrik Clarke people
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
— John Henrik Clarke people
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
— John Henrik Clarke history
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
— John Henrik Clarke greatness
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
— John Henrik Clarke art
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
— John Henrik Clarke people
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
— John Henrik Clarke mind
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
— John Henrik Clarke religion
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
— John Henrik Clarke art
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
— John Henrik Clarke pain
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.
— John Henrik Clarke people
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
— John Henrik Clarke time
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
— John Henrik Clarke art
In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.
— John Henrik Clarke reading
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
— John Henrik Clarke love
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.
— John Henrik Clarke art
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
— John Henrik Clarke hope
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
— John Henrik Clarke world
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audiences attention, then he can teach his lesson.
— John Henrik Clarke good

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