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

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…

- John Henrik Clarke

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…

- John Henrik Clarke

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 a…

- John Henrik Clarke

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

- John Henrik Clarke

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 c…

- John Henrik Clarke

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

- John Henrik Clarke

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people an…

- John Henrik Clarke

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 sl…

- John Henrik Clarke