John Henrik Clarke Quotes About Geography

Quotes about: Geography

• 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.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Games, Slave Ships, People

• 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 compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, History, Political

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Giving Up, Rights, Long Ago

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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

  John Henrik Clarke

  Maps, Compass, Geography

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin