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John Henrik Clarke Biography

John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark, January 1, 1915 – July 12, 1998), was an American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.

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I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

Lord, Realized, Think, Thinking, Wells

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.

Colonized, Europeans, Information, World

We 've lost something else: the relationship between men and women.

Lost, Men, Men And Women, Women

Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

Bibles, Break, Burn, Tvs

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

Protestants, Moslem, Religion, Anymore, Protestant

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

Black, Ended, Intact, People, Slavery

You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.

Eight, Looks, Numbers, Same, See, Serves

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.

Firsts, Make, People, Place, Would Be

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.

African American, Identity, Minority, Self, Struggle, Time

Most of the Pyramids were observatories in perfect alignment. Some Pyramids were aligned so that the sun would hit them at a certain time of the year. And yet, it could rain all year, and not a drop of rain could get inside. No one covered the hole. So that took some high intelligence to line a thing up so that the exact time of year when the sun was in the exact position, it would light up the inside of that crypt.

Exact, Light, Position, Rain, Sun, Years

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

Hate, Love You, People, Thinking, White

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

Afraid, Deals, Legs, Nothing, Situation, Wrong

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.

Age, Long, School, Sunday, World

Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They don't stop having special Jewish holidays. Why can't we understand that we can have things special to us and still comingle and integrate with others.

Comingle, Having, Holiday, Integrating, Special, Understand

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.

Child, Children, Heritage, Mother, People, Same

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

Boxers, Build, Clown, Institutions

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.

Analysis, Definition, Finals, Responsibility

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

Compass, Culturally, Geography, Locate, Maps

You should not bear insults.

Bear, Bears, Insult, Insults, Should

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

History, Look, People, Vantage, Views, Years

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