Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

Bayard Taylor

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Dee Dee Myers

The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I ...

Stefan Molyneux

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the mo...

Virginia Henley

Pita: Do you have a girlfriend, Creasy? Creasy: What? Pita: Do you have a girlfriend? Creasy: No. What kind of question is that, anyway? You're supposed to be studying history, okay? Pita: It is history... Creasy history. Creasy: No, that's ancient h...

Man on Fire

By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for th...

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

[fencing] Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful. Man in Black: Thank you; I've worked hard to become so. Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don't know. M...

The Princess Bride

I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to...

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force (i.e slavery, apartheid) than the term “internalized racism”- a term...

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II