America Quote by Eduardo Galeano

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

— Eduardo Galeano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

“Had I been brought to America a few years earlier, I might have written that in such and such a year my father emigrated,…

— Mary Antin

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at…

— Tim O'Brien

“Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as…

— Marge Piercy

History is the memory of a nation

— Thomas Sowell

Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember everything, and…

— Sharon Van Etten

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

— Jules Renard