Tagged: the world is ruled by power

“I think that the mission is to unify all African people throughout the world through a single pan-African program to reclaim every inch of Africa for African people, all twelve million square miles of it. To restore African dignity to Africa, to stop imitating Europe, to put Africa back on the road to believing in itself again. Producing for itself, and to end this whole cultism around consumerism and begin to produce the things we eat, the clothes we wear, and the transportation we use. We need to restore self-reliance, because it is a terrible thing for a people to be out of power; and when a people are out of power for so long, they long desperately for power and when they get close to it they panic, because they have not rehearsed for power…education has but one honorable purpose, one alone; everything else is a waste of time… that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power. Being Black and beautiful means nothing until ultimately you’re Black and powerful. The world is ruled by power, not blackness and not by beauty.” — Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Source: Dr. John Henrik Clarke. My Life in Search of Africa. pg. 96. 1999.