Fads Quote by Adrienne Rich

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't…

— Isabel Allende

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not…

— Voltaire

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

— Edward Gibbon

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

— Ron Chernow

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

— Jess Row

“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up…

— Michael Eric Dyson

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the…

— Rita Dove