Experience Quote by John Henrik Clarke

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the…

— Frank Herbert

“Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE”

— Fela Durotoye

“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, /…

— Adrienne Rich

“Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length…

— Alex Jeffers

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

— Simon Schama

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of…

— Dacid McCullough

“Histories are instruments of oppression.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“What the brats in life fail to grasp is that the trails of history are blazed not by those who cling to what is…

— Stephen H. Segal

I'm also fascinated by the interplay between personal history and the larger forces that form the context for our lives.

— Julie Salamon

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who…

— Julia Bacha

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing…

— Anonymous