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“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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Wall #Thinking #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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Games #People #Black
“To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Beautiful #Powerful #Mean
“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

#Education #Powerful #People
“Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Self #Students #Form
“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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#People #Hemisphere #Ships
“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

#Spiritual #Children #Imagination
“Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Organization #Hands #People
“Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Mind #World
“Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Greatness #Civilization #Egypt
“The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Civilization #Islam #Roles
“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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#School #Sunday #Long
“To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#People #Firsts #Oppression
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#People #History #Political
“I only debate my equals. All others I teach.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Debate #Teach
“If you expect the present day school system to give history to you, you are dreaming. This, we have to do ourselves. The Chinese didn't go out in the world and beg people to teach Chinese studies or let them teach Chinese studies. The Japanese didn't do that either. People don't beg other people to restore their history; they do it themselves.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Dream #School #People
“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

#People #Degrees #Brilliant
“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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Europe #People #Greek
“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

#People #Looks #Use
“Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Believe #Ugly #Deities
“A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Education #Teacher #Teaching
“Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Devil #Life Is #Hell
“A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Mother #Children #People
“White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Hate #Love You #Thinking
“In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Reading #Men #Order
“Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#People #Black #Slavery
“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.”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Mother #Spiritual #Father
“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

#Responsibility #Finals #Analysis
“Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY”
-- John Henrik Clarke

#Experience #Trash #Instruments
“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

#Powerful #Taken #Reality

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