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
became dwight eisenhower
I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.
wall thinking people
To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.
hate love-you thinking
White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.
slave-ships people united-states
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
mind world facilitate
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
dark color white
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.
records missionary foreigners
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.
experience trash-cans instruments
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
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.'
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.
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.
attracted deal form introduce introduced messiah muhammad orthodox people tried unworthy
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.
above african america burst civil decline gave islam movement nations rights since spread
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.