"What I have learned is that a whole……" — John Henrik Clarke
"What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant."
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John Henrik Clarke
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59 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not…
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought…
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early…
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their…
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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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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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.
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