Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Concha Buika

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

Gabrielle Union

History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of, I know...

Crush

I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we spoke black. When I was a kid growing up, where I came from, it was hip to be black. To be white was kind of square.

Jerry Leiber

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Dave Foley

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Seamus Heaney

History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way the powerful handle power, for power engenders records. History is about evidence, and evidence flagrant...

An Intelligent Person's Guide to History

Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.

Richard Flanagan

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should be the history of salvation, of man moving toward G...

From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

Toyin Odutola

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

Albert Murray

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Ernest Dimnet

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

Ryan Tedder

I don't know anything about the history of music.

Sia Furler

Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certai...

Diary of a Bad Year

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper