Best John Henrik Clarke Quotes
- I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic… Black
- My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad… Always Shared
- She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as… African
- When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations… African
- After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date… Been
- Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you… Anytime
- As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference… Alabama
- I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not… Africanist
- I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie… Area
- It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best… Adventurer
- My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to… Alabama
- The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… Academic
- There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. Action
- When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would… Able
- When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African… Affair
- It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… Bulk
- Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil. Control
- Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance Education
- I only debate my equals. All others I teach. All
- If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny. Destiny
- Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact Black
- Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY Cans
- It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on… Black
- Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of… Africa
- We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away… Face