John Henrik Clarke

You should not bear insults.

— John Henrik Clarke

The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

— John Henrik Clarke

All life is a test one way or the other.

— John Henrik Clarke

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

— John Henrik Clarke

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

— John Henrik Clarke

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

— John Henrik Clarke

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

— John Henrik Clarke

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

— John Henrik Clarke

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

— John Henrik Clarke

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

— John Henrik Clarke

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

— John Henrik Clarke

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

— John Henrik Clarke

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

— John Henrik Clarke

In a collective society, everybody's business is everybody's business.

— John Henrik Clarke

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

— John Henrik Clarke

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

— John Henrik Clarke

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than…

— John Henrik Clarke

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

— John Henrik Clarke

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

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

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

— John Henrik Clarke

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

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

— John Henrik Clarke

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

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

“Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism.…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right…

— John Henrik Clarke

Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and…

— John Henrik Clarke

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

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

If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

— John Henrik Clarke

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

— John Henrik Clarke

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

— John Henrik Clarke

I only debate my equals. All others I teach.

— John Henrik Clarke

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

— John Henrik Clarke