Freedom is something we must take with our own hands and secure it with our own hands. If other people’s hands secure it for us, other people’s hands can take it away from us. Our main ally and our most dependable ally in the fight for freedom is ourselves.

-John Henrik Clarke, Notes

Because the African people of the world have not [or have not been encouraged and/or allowed to] seriously studied the last one thousand years of African history before the slave trade, they are not prepared to prophesy and plan the one thousand years after the slave trade.

-Nana John Henrik Clarke, Notes

Where are we going in the world? We must establish some kind of a leadership over ourselves and some kind of discipline among ourselves and some kind of respectability to ourselves. And I suggest that you start seeking out an ally by finding a mirror. And you look in that mirror and look at what’s staring back at you until you find your leader,…

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To look toward the 21st century, I must look backward and forward at the same time. I must first look back at the 15th century. At the 500 year span of time, the age of mentacide, and explain the colonization of the mind that has brought us to the sad state where we can get close to liberation-close enough to touch and taste it-and turn around…

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