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John Henrik Clarke was a renowned writer, born on June 1, 1915, and passed away on July 16, 1998. His works primarily focused on African history and culture, which had a profound impact on academic research and public awareness in the subsequent era.

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“If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.”

Ifs Whole Mother Father Lost Morality

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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.”

Ifs Children Mother Culture Reading Father Adults Convince Explaining Mother And Father Legitimacy

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“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.”

Kind Hands Together Mother Father Black Voice Perfect Example Raised Iron Black Women Family Together

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

Kind Mother Father Games All Kinds

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

People Children Mother Heritage

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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.”

Mother Father White Poor Rich Land Understood Areas My Family Folks Georgia Columbus

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“Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.”

Heart Matter Earth Faces Spiritual Mother Father Gravity Mother And Father Center Of Gravity

Book:Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

Source: Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

About the Author

Born: June 1, 1915
Died: July 16, 1998
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 142

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