88 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as ‘Western Civilization,’ long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European’s control over the world.

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.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

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.’

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.

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.’

The first light of human consciousness and the world’s first civilizations were in Africa.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.