Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
In my Olympic history I don't think I have achieved my potential as an athlete. That's what I want when I look back at my career. I want to be able to say I gave it my best shot.
They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.
In , Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.
I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it.
If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat history.
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight.
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame that fear.
Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.
For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.
