Top 145 Quotes & Sayings by John Henrik Clarke - Page 3

You look at the Pyramids. They're not one fraction of an inch off in terms of their alignment. They were built without a bonding agent.

The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

I have gone up in the Pyramids and the stones are so close together you can't force a playing card between them and (they are) in perfect alignment. So those people must have had some hydraulics or something. You take 20 men, put them around a big stone, their legs would get in the way. Even if they could lift it, 20 pairs of legs hitting against each other would throw it off balance. And they would not have it in exact alignment. Not even a fraction of an inch off.

There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

You shouldn't bear humiliations.

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

All life is a test one way or the other.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

Clowns don't build institutions, nor do boxers.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

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.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

Whoever the Lord is, he'd give us a facility. He's given you hands, legs and might so you use that facility to rise above the lowly status. Failing that, he gave you two good legs, just run like hell.

You should not bear insults.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

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

If God is love, then God has no stepchildren to love.

With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.

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.

I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.