My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history,… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“After over a century of one of the deepest blood feuds in the history of inhuman warfare, peace had finally descended on… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone. He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“So you've got the honest truth and faithful history of a world where he who shatters the skulls of others most efficiently… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“[P]ressed too far, the cult of ethnicity has had bad consequences too. The new ethnic gospel rejects the unifying vision of individuals… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The thing that concerns me most is that, in the digital age, if we fail to make efforts to maintain the value… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
“I strongly believe that teachers need to tell students about great lives and make children understand their history and heritage. It is… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry,… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Boston's journey through nearly four centuries of change is the stuff of American history. From starting a Revolution on the waterfront to… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
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