We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. - John Henrik Clarke 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson. - John Henrik Clarke 3 Share Now -
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother. - John Henrik Clarke 4 Share Now -
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. - John Henrik Clarke 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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.' - John Henrik Clarke 8 Share Now -
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born. - John Henrik Clarke 9 Share Now -
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. - John Henrik Clarke 10 Share Now -
