Depiction Quote by Angela Davis Download Open image “It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals” — Angela Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depiction Essentials Heroic History Individual
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For heroes do not make history—that is the historian’s job—but, passive, let themselves be borne along, swept up to the crest of the tide… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It… — Neil Druckmann Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The point of the first one was that it was about guys being lured by sex and the stereotypes... I always say it's like… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
People always say, "You played such a strong character." I remember someone said that to me when I played a role in Shame, and… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say. — Joan Frank Copy Share Image
Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
![“I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.” quote by Lena Dunham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/43b/lena-dunham-1013_arms_i-had-no-clue-what-anyone-was-talking-ab_340752.jpg)
