History Quotes
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That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
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The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
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Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society we are today, and also helps us understand the history of race relations in this country.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.
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For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
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The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
