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
mother children people
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
self students form
Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance
people world information
Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.
mind world facilitate
Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
mother spiritual father
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.
europe people greek
The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.
dream expectations political
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
greatness egypt rome
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
spiritual children imagination
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.
powerful taken reality
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.
beautiful powerful mean
To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.
civilization light world
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
games slave-ships people
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.
people degrees brilliant
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.