We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
ADRIENNE RICHEvery home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it’s not a lie.
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I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH -
Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn’t have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.
JASON MOMOA -
In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.
BILL DEDMAN -
I am a big Bewitched fan… something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
BARRY WILLIAMS -
When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
ALAN KING -
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
SAPPHO -
I had a very sparse comic upbringing – not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him.
ALAN REDPATH -
I threw it all away on a warming night of june, to live by the splendour of the sun, to hover by the virtues of the moon.
ANA SOULFUL -
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
J. K. ROWLING -
The pervasive attitude is that it’s crazy to invite more danger into your life.
BOB WEIR -
Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
ABERJHANI -
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNE -
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD






