Latest John Henrik Clarke Quotes from Interviews

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• Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Prayer, Form, Concerned

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• I believe in doing good for good's sake.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Sake, Doing Good

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• I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Spirituality, I Believe

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• Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

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  Church, Attending, One Thing

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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.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Church, Denominations

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• I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Children, Avid, Church

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• I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Games

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• My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Voice

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• You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see his mother and father reading about it, and explaining it to him. Then it gets a legitimacy it otherwise would never have. Until then, his learning is limited.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

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  Children, Parent, Difficult

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• People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.

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  Thinking, Sea, Land

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• Break all the TVs, burn all the Bibles.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Tvs, Break

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• Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Ambition, Frustration, People

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• I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Morning, Believe, Loss

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• What has been imposed on religion is not religion itself but the custom of those who have been converted to it. I think that the most atrocious of all of this is Islam. They were in the slave trade before Islam. The Arabs were natural slave traders. They were the people who were called on to conquer us, unfortunately.

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  Thinking, People, Islam

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• We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

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  World, Propaganda

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• We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are engaged in some form of servitude of people. I don't look favorably on either one although I think properly practiced all religions are basically good.

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  Educational, Thinking, People

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• The Arabs are deep in the slave trade right now.

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  Slave, Trade, Slave Trade

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• I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.

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  Hypocrite, Mean, Thinking

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

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  Protestants

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• I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

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  People, Support, Community

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• If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

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  Slavery, Chance, Chances Are

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• The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Egypt, Pyramids, Differences

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• What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Pyramids, Example, Culture

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• There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

  John Henrik Clarke

  Home, Egypt, Pyramids

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