John Henrik Clarke

Your group has a right and responsibility to preside over your behavior and you have a responsibility to make that behavior in…

— John Henrik Clarke

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take…

— John Henrik Clarke

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

— John Henrik Clarke

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We…

— John Henrik Clarke

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

— John Henrik Clarke

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

— John Henrik Clarke

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

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

— John Henrik Clarke

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and…

— John Henrik Clarke

I only debate my equals. All others I teach.

— John Henrik Clarke

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for…

— John Henrik Clarke

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your…

— John Henrik Clarke

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

— John Henrik Clarke

We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.

— John Henrik Clarke

I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— John Henrik Clarke

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

— John Henrik Clarke

The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it.…

— John Henrik Clarke

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and…

— 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

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to…

— John Henrik Clarke

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— John Henrik Clarke

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians…

— John Henrik Clarke

African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

— John Henrik Clarke