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.
education powerful people
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.
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
school sunday long
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
education teacher teaching
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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.