I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. Richard M. Nixon changecontroldestiny Change image and share on social
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. Dee Dee Myers barackfamoushistory Change image and share on social
I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know. Robin Coste Lewis artartisthistory share on social
Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air. Robin Coste Lewis airbackblueprint Change image and share on social
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose. Hampton Sides agehistoryhold Change image and share on social
I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations. Hampton Sides collegeearlyfocus Change image and share on social
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it. Hampton Sides academicbackdim share on social
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman americanblackhistory Change image and share on social
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. Cat Stevens commondividefeel Change image and share on social
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. M. H. Abrams graduateharvardhistory Change image and share on social