88 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke

It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

I only debate my equals. All others I teach.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

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.

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.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

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.