There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?” — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can… — Anthony Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history,… — Daniel Aaron Copy Share Image
“There is an abiding fear Bonaparte will invade England by way of a tunnel beneath the Channel. How ingenious! Why, had such… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
