"A people's relationship to their heritage is the……" — 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

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59 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke

John Henrik Clarke has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not…
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought…
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early…
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a…
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to…
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,… — Diane Ackerman
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar… — Enid Bagnold
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a… — Tyra Banks

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