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History Quotes by Maya Angelou
- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
- The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
- I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
- Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just…
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to…
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
- We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
- I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
- You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough