White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me. — John Henrik Clarke Hate Copy Share Image
I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions. — John Henrik Clarke Dependency Copy Share Image
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The… — John Henrik Clarke Dark Copy Share Image
I think that you're just as close to Jesus if you use the equipment he gave you other than to call on… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on… — John Henrik Clarke Africa Copy Share Image
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 Behavior Copy Share Image
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 Faces Copy Share Image
What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be… — John Henrik Clarke Culture Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Ashamed 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
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 Africans Copy Share Image
Most of the Pyramids were observatories in perfect alignment. Some Pyramids were aligned so that the sun would hit them at a… — John Henrik Clarke Alignment 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
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 Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 African american Copy Share Image
We never see ourselves as heroes and sometimes when we do it is a hero that has made a fortune as a… — John Henrik Clarke Boxers Copy Share Image
Whoever the Lord is, he'd give us a facility. He's given you hands, legs and might so you use that facility to… — 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… — John Henrik Clarke Action Copy Share Image
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY — John Henrik Clarke Experience Copy Share Image
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost.… — John Henrik Clarke Age Copy Share Image
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back… — John Henrik Clarke Class Copy Share Image
There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated… — John Henrik Clarke African american Copy Share Image
The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation. — John Henrik Clarke Africa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 African american Copy Share Image
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world. — John Henrik Clarke European Copy Share Image
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
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 Adventure Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not… — John Henrik Clarke Africans Copy Share Image
You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman… — John Henrik Clarke Church Copy Share Image
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke Civilization Copy Share Image
