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

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In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe. . . to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

John Henrik Clarke

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

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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

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I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

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Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

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The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience. . . Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found. . . . [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

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Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing.

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I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.

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