Book Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever…

— Langston Hughes

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds…

— Adrienne Rich

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a time, usually…

— Ishmael Reed

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G Woodson

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are…

— Audre Lorde

“I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root,"…

— Bernice L. McFadden

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will…

— Anonymous

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann

We really should stop taking historical novelists seriously as historians. The idea that they have authority is ludicrous. They are very good at imagining…

— David Starkey

In the academic world, biographies of these great figures of the past fell out of favor in the 1960s, when there was a turn…

— H. W. Brands