Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“Somehow they felt they were living in a moment when history pauses and takes stock and changes course.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home.… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp -… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two… That's why my place in the… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
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“The two friends went on and on toward the sierra, at times keeping the highway, at times. deviating from it. Whenever they… — Pedro Antonio de Alarcón Copy Share Image
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
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There are so many stories behind that smile, so many secrets she'll never tell. But the most important thing is that everything… — Elisabeth Van Den Abeele Copy Share Image
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
When you step out on the grounds of Wimbledon, you feel that respect, you feel that heritage, feel the history. — Grigor Dimitrov Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
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Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison,… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made my debut very early and a lot of things happened to me at a young age, but I was there… — Bojan Krkic Copy Share Image
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
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