Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that… — John Henrik Clarke 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 Copy Share Image
We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old… — 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
