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John Henrik Clarke Quotes

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Attending church is one thing, belonging is another  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) 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 were old before Europe was born  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) ...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) I believe in doing good for good’s sake  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) 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.  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) 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 record of their history written by local writers  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people  (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 history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) 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 from them  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) I only debate my equals. All others I teach  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes) We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize  (John Henrik Clarke Quotes)