John Henrik Clarke

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

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning.…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course.…

— John Henrik Clarke

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And…

— 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

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

— John Henrik Clarke

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

— John Henrik Clarke

I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it…

— 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

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

— 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

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

— John Henrik Clarke

After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the…

— John Henrik Clarke

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

— John Henrik Clarke

Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we…

— John Henrik Clarke

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people…

— 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

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

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

— John Henrik Clarke

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope…

— John Henrik Clarke

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

— John Henrik Clarke

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

— John Henrik Clarke

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— John Henrik Clarke