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
If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a… — John Henrik Clarke 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 say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin… — John Henrik Clarke 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
I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we… — 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 Copy Share Image
I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned. — 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 and wooly… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I… — 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 who to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had… — 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 Copy Share Image