My individual way of taking on the burdens of history has changed. I don't think of them only as burdens; I think they are honorable. Margo Jefferson burdenchangehistory Change image and share on social
Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work. Margo Jefferson actualbeliefblack Change image and share on social
Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. John Shelton Reed accentbrainwashconfederate share on social
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself. Paul Mooney deaddropforever Change image and share on social
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. Paul Mooney germanyhistoryjew Change image and share on social
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells catastropheeducationhistory Change image and share on social
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. George Saintsbury absencecallclassical share on social
I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past. Vanilla Ice backchangehistory Change image and share on social
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility. Pat Mastelotto baggagecrimexpectation Change image and share on social
I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. Jessica Lynch bookfabricatehistory share on social