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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

~John Henrik Clarke

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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.

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

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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.

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We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

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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 it.

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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 1st, 1915

Died: July 16th, 1998

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