M. Clarke Quotes

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

To be black and beautiful means nothing in this world unless we are black and powerful.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

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

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

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

I will only debate with my equals. All others I teach.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

...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.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

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

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

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.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

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.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

I can't get divorced because I'm a Catholic. Catholics don't get divorced. They stay together through anger and hatred and festering misery, just like God intended.

We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence