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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
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John Henrik Clarke
Age: 83 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 1
Died: 1998
Died: July 16
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Union Springs
Alabama
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I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
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Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
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Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.
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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.'
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The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.
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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.
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You shouldn't bear humiliations.
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This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.
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What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.
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In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.
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Some of us say, Lord knows how much I can bear. I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.
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We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.
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Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
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You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
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The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.
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I believe in doing good for good's sake.
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No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.
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