History Quote by Angela Y. Davis

“How we document ourselves speaks volumes about our ability to know ourselves and write our own histories, and we need more opportunities to do…

— Nico Lang

“History is simply the stories we inherit.”

— Leslie Forbes

“We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them…

— Sarah Dessen

“...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.”

— Jacqueline Carey

“My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history…

— Sebastian Barry

“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?”

— Karpov Kinrade

“It's all a matter of perspective. And maybe we thought we were living one story, when if we look at it a little different,…

— Kiersten White

“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and…

— Paul Murray

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story of my…

— Arthur Schnitzler

“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend…

— Edward Bloor