Emily Kuroda Quotes
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.
Quotes to Explore
-
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
-
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
-
The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
-
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
-
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
-
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
-
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
-
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
-
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.
-
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
-
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
-
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
-
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
-
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
-
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
-
I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.
-
I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
-
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
-
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
-
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
-
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
-
He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man’s billfold.
-
Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
-
I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.
