John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth1 January 1915
CountryUnited States of America
John Henrik Clarke quotes about
mother children people
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
debate teach
I only debate my equals. All others I teach.
waste purpose students
...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.
dark land people
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
reality world pearls
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 strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
world information
Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.
views years people
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
teaching land daddy
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 own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
son people southern
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 to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.
school firsts formal
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 spend much formal time in school - I had to work.
queens kings president
I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.
teacher school years
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 be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'
long silence action
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.
song pain unique
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 and warm songs together.