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“Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We…

— Monica McGoldrick

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the…

— John Henrik Clarke

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power…

— Dan Fesperman

“History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught…

— Patrice Lumumba

“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the…

— Ruta Sepetys

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that…

— Scott Berkun

“History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at…

— Stephen King

“Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us…

— K.P. Kollenborn

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach