I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states. — John Henrik Clarke Head of state Copy Share Image
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother. — John Henrik Clarke Children Copy Share Image
To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant. — John Henrik Clarke Protestant Copy Share Image
We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny. — John Henrik Clarke Destiny Copy Share Image
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and… — John Henrik Clarke Ambition Copy Share Image
The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves,… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the… — John Henrik Clarke Analysis Copy Share Image
If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Compass Copy Share Image
I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips… — John Henrik Clarke Christ Copy Share Image
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or… — John Henrik Clarke Africans Copy Share Image
“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before… — John Henrik Clarke Clock Copy Share Image
What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be… — John Henrik Clarke Catholic Copy Share Image
We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are… — John Henrik Clarke Christianity Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Colonization Copy Share Image
Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history. — John Henrik Clarke Age Copy Share Image
Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group. — John Henrik Clarke Behavior Copy Share Image
In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business. — John Henrik Clarke Business Copy Share Image
Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil. — John Henrik Clarke Control Copy Share Image
White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke Hate Copy Share Image
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Dependency Copy Share Image
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women. — John Henrik Clarke Feminism Copy Share Image
The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me. — John Henrik Clarke Intelligence Copy Share Image
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke Africa Copy Share Image
I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world. — John Henrik Clarke Colonized Copy Share Image
Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent. — John Henrik Clarke Children Copy Share Image
