America Quote by Nas

My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl…

— Jean Fritz

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

— Oscar Handlin

I grew up reading American history.

— Jake Auchincloss

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more…

— Sufjan Stevens

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn't like history when I was in high school. I didn't study history…

— Adele Logan Alexander

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.

— William Loren Katz

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

— John Sedgwick

I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all walks of…

— Viv Richards

As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she came to…

— Bryce Dessner

I've always been fascinated by history.

— Ruben Fleischer