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“There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated African-Americans who never gave up our African identity at no time during our stay here.”

Quote by John Henrik Clarke

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John Henrik Clarke

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. more

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“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.”

“After the Moslem Africans lost control over Spain, they began to prey on the Africans further to the south. They destroyed the great independent states in West Africa, and subsequently set Africa up for the Western slave trade and the Arabs were in the slave trade before Islam and they are still in the slave trade.”

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“I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.”

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“The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.”

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“If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.”

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“History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.”

Clock Time Of Day

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“You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.”

Ifs Knows Looks Has Beens Done Purpose Hours Numbers Eight Clock

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

Humans Maps Compass Geography

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“We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.”

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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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